Parrot at the Milkbar returns to our screens on November 9th at 24:00h in the programme El Documental on Canal 33. The documentary, directed by Ines Thomsen,

was awarded Best Film at the Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein and Best Documentary at the Achtung Berlin-New Berlin Film. It has been screened at numerous festivals such as DocsBarcelona, Documenta Madrid, Hofer Filmtage, Alcances and Valencia International Human Rights Festival.

The film tells the story of four hairdressers and their customers in El Raval, four small, strange time and space capsules, of people who left their home to find a better one, while the Spaniards are about to leave their own country themselves.

In the small alleys the little barbershops lie side by side. Each nationality has its own. The businesses cater for parallel societies and have little contact with one another. Whoever enters apparently leaves Spain behind to plunge into a safe place of familiar rituals and memories of home. The barbers live from their regular customers and their almost pastoral ability to constantly talk about everything and nothing, or remain silent, whilst they softly touch and courageously beautify the heads and cheeks of the weary and burdened. Let yourself be amazed by this little capsule of time that has not aged.