Travelling with film

Women in Afghanistan

There really was a beauty academy created in Kabul to teach Afghan women how to cut, perm, massage, style, and pamper hair!  American stylists created the academy to teach women, create a community of hair dressers, and as they said, to "save one woman at a time".  The film was very touching, funny, and distressing all at once as you glimpsed the lives of these women through salon tours and interviews.

I hadn't realized that this would be a documentary going in.  It was very charming that these American women, some Afghan American, would find it so important that these skills be taught and nurtured..  My most memorable quote of the whole movie is from a young 25ish single woman who when asked about marriage replied, "I would never marry for love.  If a man falls in love with me, that means he can fall in love with any woman."