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Heads and Tails

Heads and Tails (Baştan Başa)

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  • Turkey
  • 2019
  • · 57m

Directors Fırat Yücel, Aylin Kuryel
Cast Coya Daniel, Sima Meseri Badash
Genre Documentary

Heads and Tails chronicles the curious hair trade between Turkey and Israel. Two Turkish-Israeli women, Coya and Sima, get the tails of hair from male hair traders in Turkey and sell them to wig makers in Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak. Orthodox Jewish women cover their heads with the wigs made of the hair that once belonged to women in Anatolia. In this journey, the hair is turned into a commodity, a means of living and source of beauty, becomes kosher, while the one who carefully grows the hair becomes rather invisible.

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