The most important 14 minutes your face will ever spend thinking about eyebrows.
Unibrow follows Leyla, a second-generation Irani-Canadian girl striving for the perfect brows, as she befriends a new student from Iran, Sahar, who introduces her to the cultural significance of eyebrows.
Acting
Sennia's face does entire monologues without speaking.
Writing
Economy of storytelling that features wish they had.
Production
Iranian-Canadian specificity in every prop and glance.
Director
Nedda Sarshar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Iran has one of the world's highest rhinoplasty rates; beauty pressure is literally national infrastructure.
Sarshar expanded this from her own festival-circuit short, proving some stories need exactly 14 minutes and zero studio notes.
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