Chez Jolie Coiffure (2018) | May 28, 6:45 pm

Sabine attaches a hair weave and gets to work. Her hands move quickly and precisely, as she tightly braids the hair in front of the sign in her salon promising African, European, and American-style coiffure. Sabine is a larger than-life personality crammed into a tiny, glassed-in shop in the largely immigrant Brussels district of Matonge. Here, she and her employees fit extensions and glue on lashes while watching soaps, dishing romantic advice, sharing rumors about government programs to legalize migrants, and talking about people back home in West Africa. – OVID

Director: Rosine Mftego Mbakam

Cast: Rosine Mbakam

Country: Belgium

Distributor: Icarus Films

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 10 minutes

Platform: OVID

Special Programming: Documentary Cinema

Special Events: Filmmaker Retrospectives

Author: Josh Hornbeck

Josh is the founder of Cinema Cocktail, and he is a writer and director, podcaster and critic, and communications and marketing professional living and working in the greater Seattle area.