Chez Jolie Coiffure

POV Season 33
  • Feature Film
  • 2020
  • 52 Mins

Sabine is a charismatic, larger-than-life personality crammed into a tiny shop in the immigrant Brussels district of Matonge. Here, she and her employees style extensions and glue on lashes while sharing rumors about government programs to legalize migrants and talking about life back home in Cameroon.

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Official Trailer | Chez Jolie Coiffure

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  • 2020

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Sabine is a charismatic, larger-than-life personality crammed into a tiny shop in the immigrant Brussels district of Matonge. Here, she and her employees style extensions and glue on lashes while sharing rumors about government programs to legalize migrants and talking ...

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Discussion Guide

Chez Jolie Coiffure: Discussion Guide

Lesson Plan

  • Grades 9-10,
  • Grades 11-12

Chez Jolie Coiffure: Understanding the Push and Pull of International Migration

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Chez Jolie Coiffure Delve Deeper Reading List

Film Credits

  • Rosine Mbakam Director/Producer

About the Film

Critical Acclaim

An original filmmaker of exquisite sensibility; one of the foremost filmmakers of creative nonfiction working right now.

Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Intense vulnerability makes the film emotionally gripping; the contrast between a public storefront and intimate confessions makes it engrossing... Chez Jolie Coiffure unequivocally extracts a powerful sense of empathy—and urgency.

Lucy Shanker, Vox Magazine

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April 15
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Picture This: Chez Jolie Coiffure

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June 20
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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated (AKA)'s Virtual Screening of 'Chez Jolie Coiffure'

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September 12
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African Diaspora Film Club | 'Chez Jolie Coiffure' with Director Rosine Mbakam

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