Hair Love (6:48)
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This 2019 short film won an Oscar in 2020, and was adapted into a picture book that was released in 2019. There's also going to be a 12-episode web series on HBO Max, though I'm not sure when that will debut. (I wouldn't get to see it anyway, since I don't get that service. But I'd really like to see it.)

The film is about a young Black girl named Zuri, who wakes up one morning and sees on her calendar that today is a special day, though we don't learn why until the end of the film. In preparation for that event, she wants to style her hair in one of the fashions on a vlog she watches, but she can't do it herself. (The vlogger is the only character in the film with dialog, voiced by Issa Rae.) So her father tries to help, but he has a great deal of trouble with it, himself. Until finally he watches the vlog and takes it step by step, when he finally succeeds in getting the hairstyle just right. And then father and daughter leave for the event that prompted all this, the nature of which I won't reveal. But it's both a sad and happy tear-jerker, that lends great retroactive drama to what had been up to that point mostly a comedy. It's a very sweet film on multiple levels.