Roots

Directed by Allison Fleur

Hannah re-experiences the traumatic memories of her childhood when she enters a dreamlike memory of her mother doing her hair in her bedroom. The childhood bedroom turns into a horror-like lab when her mother, controlled by a white figure, experiments on her hair. In the present day she tries to make her black hair “acceptable” but becomes frustrated when she is unable to meet society’s standards. She breaks down and looks at the reflection of her true self. Faced with who she truly is, what society wants from her, and the trauma from her past, she must find not only herself but the future she wants for all black women.