EL BARBERO

Francesca Phillips | Spain 2015 | 26 Min. | OmeU

For almost a hundred years the barbershop has been at the centre of the local community in the village of Teror, Gran Canaria – a focal point that is now inexorably vanishing. Pepito, its eighty-two-year-old barber, is at the end of his working life, and although friends do continue to visit, life in the shop slowly becomes much quieter. As he attends to fewer and fewer clients he spends more time alone.