The Beauty Academy of Kabul
After decades of war and the Taliban, the women of Afghanistan need... a makeover?
- Documentary
Overview
What happens when a group of hairdressers from America travel to Kabul with the intention of telling Afghan women how to do hair and makeup? This engaging, optimistic documentary tracks a unique development project: a shiny new beauty school, funded in part by beauty-industry mainstays, which sets out to teach the latest cutting, coloring, and perming techniques to practicing and aspiring Afghan hairdressers and beauticians. The American teachers, all volunteers, include three Afghan-Americans returning home for the first time in over twenty years. The Beauty Academy of Kabul offers a rare glimpse into Afghan women’s lives, and documents the poignant and often humorous process through which women with very different experiences of life come to learn about one another.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 4, 2004
- Original language
- English
- Director
- Liz Mermin
- Cinematography
- Lynda Hall
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- $225,399
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt0439130