Trailer | Chez Jolie Coiffure
Preview: Season 33 Episode 5 | 47s
Meet Sabine, the charismatic Cameroonian proprietor of an underground hair salon.
In this captivating documentary filmed in a single tiny room, viewers step inside an underground hair salon with its charismatic proprietor, a Cameroonian immigrant named Sabine. Here, she and her employees style extensions and glue on lashes while watching soaps, dishing romantic advice, sharing rumors about government programs to legalize migrants, and talking about life back home in Cameroon.
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Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, the Open Society Foundations and the...
Trailer | Chez Jolie Coiffure
Preview: Season 33 Episode 5 | 47s
In this captivating documentary filmed in a single tiny room, viewers step inside an underground hair salon with its charismatic proprietor, a Cameroonian immigrant named Sabine. Here, she and her employees style extensions and glue on lashes while watching soaps, dishing romantic advice, sharing rumors about government programs to legalize migrants, and talking about life back home in Cameroon.
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Lesson Plan Clip 1 | Chez Jolie Coiffure
Sabine tells the harrowing story of “a girl” from Cameroon who went to Lebanon for work. (3m 58s)
Lesson Plan Clip 2 | Chez Jolie Coiffure
Sabine and her friend debate the latest rumors of Belgian immigration policy. (2m 44s)
Lesson Plan Clip 3 | Chez Jolie Coiffure
Sabine speaks of own experience with Lebanon’s “Kafala system”. (4m 22s)
Lesson Plan Clip 4 | Chez Jolie Coiffure
The police are raid the market looking for undocumented immigrants. (5m 45s)
Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship
Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, the Open Society Foundations and the...