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Hair

Pahriya Ghalip

Release year: 2018

Run time: 09'59

Film type: Experimental Film

Synopsis

Two film students from two completely different cultures reflects on something as simple as hair. Through texts between Lillehammer in Norway and Beijing in China, the girls talks about their own experiences with body hair. Why is it that even if you’re from east or west, society wish to control your hair one way or the other?

 

Director biography

Pahriya Ghalip graduated from the Beijing Film Academy. She is good at observing the gaps in the lives of ordinary people and focusing on various social issues. She likes experimental and creative expression. Documentary work has been selected for the Norwegian Documentary Film Festival and collected by the Rose Golden Archive at Cornell University.