KERATIN DAY
Genre
Dark Comedy
Running time
11 minutes
Year
2022
Language
Arabic
Subtitle
English
Country
Tunisia and France
Director
Sami Tlili
Bio
Producer
Sami Ben Mlouka, Haythem Fantar, Taieb Ben Aleya, Omar Ben Ali, Sami Tlili
Cast
Najla Ben Abdallah, Bahri Rahali, Riadh Hamdi, Ghazi Zaghbani, Mohamed Mensiah, Oussama Zarrouk
Scriptwriter
Sami Tlili
In a barbershop for men, it is keratin day. This means there is no shaving of beards or "ordinary cuts" of hair, only the magic product is available. In this purely male universe, which discusses football, sex, and politics, the entrance of a beautiful woman disturbs "the established order" of the salon.
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