Hair: The Story of Grass
Cultural attitudes towards beauty standards are exhaustively unpacked in this delirious satire, about how hair dictates the social mobility of a put-upon caretaker and her intellectually challenged ward.
Cultural attitudes towards beauty standards are exhaustively unpacked in this delirious satire, about how hair dictates the social mobility of a put-upon caretaker and her intellectually challenged ward.
Nada Tawhid
Norah
Aziz Gharbawi
Yassir (Adult)
Abdulhalim Al-Nami
Yassir (Child)
Fahad Al-Ghamdi
Abu Shanab
Sally Zack
Ad Girl
Faisal Al-Shaheen
Angry Father
Anna Luisa
The Mother
Lubna Bahedra
Abu Shanab's mother
Cultural attitudes towards beauty standards are exhaustively unpacked in this delirious satire, about how hair dictates the social mobility of a put-upon caretaker and her intellectually challenged ward.
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