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Bristling (Sträubend)
Nominated for
Best Student Documentary
Directed by
Marlen Schmid
8' • Switzerland • 2020
Our bodies are hairy. But our relationship to body hair is ambivalent: we remove, trim, blow-dry, style and care for it lovingly. ‘bristling’ addresses the taboo and playfully portrays five people and the ways in which they deal with their bodily hair.



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