The Beauty Academy of Kabul

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.

• Liz MerminEditor · Producer · Director
• Nigel NobleProducer
• Marcella SteingartProducer
• Linda SaetreExecutive Producer
• Sheri LevineExecutive Producer
• Nick FraserExecutive Producer
• Lynda HallDirector of Photography

Release date

May 4, 2004

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 14m

Revenue

$225,399

Genres

Documentary

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