Hair: The Story of Grass

At a glance

Hair: The Story of Grass, is a 2018 Saudi movie, directed by Maha Al-Saati, and starring Nada Tawhid, Aziz Gharbawi, Abdulhalim Al-Nami. with a runtime of 15 minutes.

Overview

Hair: The Story of Grass is a deliriously satirical film that dismantles cultural attitudes toward beauty and physical appearance with an exhaustive and darkly comic eye. At its center is a put-upon caretaker whose social standing and prospects are dictated — almost literally — by hair, alongside her intellectually challenged ward whose own position in society is similarly determined by outward appearance. The film uses its absurdist premise to mount a biting critique of beauty standards and the ways they shape power, opportunity, and human dignity in ways that are rarely acknowledged.

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