Saba’s Barbershop

Image by Abdalla Omar.

A short film about barbershops and Footscray.

“For a lot of people, Footscray is that place where we all come together to congregate. You know, you walk through the streets of Footscray in the morning, the food, the music and just the community, the loud noises. It’s all here, the African diaspora here in Melbourne. It’s that one place where we just automatically go…” Hanad

Contributor: Hanad
Directed: Abdalla Omar
Cinematography: Abdul Yusuf
Produced: Ivy Mutuku
Curation & Interviewer: Kholisile Dhliwayo

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the people of the Eastern Kulin Nations as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.