Hair: The Story of Grass (2018)

Director: Maha Al-Saati

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.

Cast

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