Barber Shop

In a small town on the countryside, every young boy is forced to have the same bowl-head haircut known as the "Yoshino-gari" hairstyle. Then one day, a drastic change occurs when a transfer student with bleached hair comes from Tokyo.

We meet 6 populations in transition via the microcosm of the local barber shop: in Rio de Janeiro, barber Pedro picks teenagers from the street to teach them a profession. The inhabitants of Clacton-on-Sea reflect on post-Brexit society. In South Africa, post Mandela era, the white middle class is degrading to poverty. Detroit's young and old inhabitants, each in their own way, have learned to overcome the city's bankruptcy. The Sahrawi refugees question the fight for their land. In India, hairdresser Soniya helps her clients to fight for women's rights. In every episode, a population finds itself on the verge of change and a barber plays his role. As opinion maker, as confessor, as story collector, as society barometer. Gradually, Barber Shop measures the state of our world, offering dialogue and human resilience as a hopeful perspective for the future.

A young woman gets a haircut.

A younger sister helps out in her older sister’s barber shop where the customers get a little too frisky. As the younger sister fends off advances from her brother-in-law the older sister has a rather strange and kinky encounter with the cooking show host she idolizes.

One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers.

Raised by a mother who was a cabaret hostess, Kiriko runs a barbershop for the second generation after her father's death. But her playful mother, Yoko Toh, is busy going out, far from working at her barbershop, until she finally brings her man along while she's in her business to share her love aloud. By the way, Kiriko also seems to have inherited Toyoko's such lewd blood, so when her guests aren't around, she often secretly masturbates with her barber shop tools. But she stopped showing her this appearance to her mother's man, her uncle next door, and rolled it up...

“Interior of Barber Shop. Man comes in, takes off his coat; sits down, smokes; is handed a paper by attendant, who points out a joke; both laugh. Meantime the man in the chair is shaved and has his hair cut. Very funny.” (Edison's Latest Wonders, 1894)

For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling. Follow along as we leap from a barber shop in Peckham to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra over the course of a single day.

An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of sartorial skill.

A portrait of a now-shuttered barber shop in Braddock PA.

A barber shop owner wins a sweepstake. He remodels his shop and hires Claude Hopkins and his orchestra to play for his customers. Two songs are sung, and the Four Step Brothers tap dance in the closing number.

A documentary revealing an observation on three barbershops throughout the course of one summer's day in the city of London - Hackney, Herne Hill, and Catford.

How could the UK possibly vote for Brexit? In the small seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea, barber Susan & her clients reflect on current political events, including migration, religious extremism, economic decline & the position of the UK vis-à- vis the EU. As her barbershop serves as the local gathering place, we get an unfiltered glimpse of the opinions of ordinary people & their hopes for a post-Brexit society.

Surrendered to razors and scissors, Emran, Gadisa and Maher are having their hair cut and beards trimmed. Sitting before the mirror, their thoughts drift between memories of their countries and the tragic events of the journey that brought them here, to the Calais Jungle.

A young kid who has been the butt of an ongoing cruel joke gets to have the last laugh.

Comedy - Four rising comics perform stand-up inside a real barbershop. - Bald Head, Ball Head, Reggie Reg

Several men in a basement barbershop become excited by women walking past the window. The ankles and knees of the passersby are visible to the men below, causing pandemonium among the barbershop customers. Possibly released in 1901.

Joe is a kid with long and wild hair. When he'll decide to cut it out he'll realize how is hard to trust a barber.