Your Roots Are Showing
Women all over the world are ditching the dye.
2025 Season | Running Time: 57 Minutes | Rating: NR
An award-winning documentary directed by hair and makeup artist Ilise Harris that explores the global “grayvolution” movement. It examines women embracing their natural silver hair, challenging ageism and sexism, and redefining beauty standards.
Women all over the world are ditching the dye and celebrating their gray hair. International makeup and hair artist Ilise Harris explores this defining moment in fashion and beauty history; a shift accelerated by the pandemic, and a passionate online community called Silver Sisters.
The film serves as an anchor to a bigger conversation around aging, health, visibility and beauty. This heartwarming and entertaining film lands us firmly at the crossroads where feminism disrupts sexism and ageism, heralding a new age of female empowerment.
“What I love about Ilise’s film is that while it’s about hair on a surface level, it is ultimately a movie about choice;
who gets to decide what women look like? Why not us? ‘Your Roots Are Showing’ encourages women to take ownership of we look and through whose gaze.”
Brooke Berman, writer/director “Ramona at Midlife”