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The last trip of the knife-grinder

A journey through the last three centuries of the history of Galician emigration.

The story of the wandering life of the sharpeners as told by their own protagonists. Brave, tough and hard working people in one of the poorest areas of Europe who wandered around the world with the only company of a grinding wheel.

2013

Premios Mestre Mateo, España

Best documentary
2013

Canadiam Labour international Film Festival, Canada

Official Selection
2013

Non-Doc, España

Selección Oficial
2013

Salón Internacional de la Luz, Colombia

Official Selection
2013

Ethnocineca- Ethnographic and Documnetary Filmfest Vienna, Autria

Official Selection
2012

Encuentro Hispanoamericáno de Cine y Video Documental Independiente, México

Official Selection
2012

Festival Mundial de Cine de Veracruz , México

Official Selection
2012

Festival de Cinema Latino Americano de Trieste , Italia

Official Selection
2012

Semana de Cine Lugo , España

Sección Oficial
2012

Medimed , España

Official Selection
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“Queicoa”, in Barallete, the jargon of Galician knife-grinders, means “god, hero, fighting spirit, a great, legendary being.” For over three centuries now, these old knife-grinders, who became famous after walking so many paths and thousands of miles, have been called “Queicoas”.

They were brave, tough men, hardened by working the fields of one of the poorest areas in Europe. Emerging from Galician mountains, in a trip that seemed to lead nowhere, they were only accompanied by a spinning wheel.

When they walked, they were dreaming.

When they ground, they felt alive.

When they stopped, they were defeated.

This is their story and these are their faces...

“Queicoa”, in Barallete, the jargon of Galician knife-grinders, means “god, hero, fighting spirit, a great, legendary being.” For over three centuries now, these old knife-grinders, who became famous after walking so many paths and thousands of miles, have been called “Queicoas”.

They were brave, tough men, hardened by working the fields of one of the poorest areas in Europe. Emerging from Galician mountains, in a trip that seemed to lead nowhere, they were only accompanied by a spinning wheel.

When they walked, they were dreaming.

When they ground, they felt alive.

When they stopped, they were defeated.

This is their story and these are their faces...

Director - Screenwriter - Producer
Aitor Rei Estévez
Art director
María Fandiño
Director of photography
Mighele de Currás
Sound recording and editing
Pablo Viña
Music
Anxo Graña
Documentation
Florencio de Arboiro
Editing
Mighele de Currás, Aitor Rei & Omar Rabuñal
Motion graphics
Ghe Design

Press

"The history of sharpeners comes to life in Rodeiro"

"Aitor Rei, director and scriptwriter of the documentary feature film A Ultima viaxe do Afiador, passion is evident in his voice. From his lips come the stories of intrepid adventurers who .."

"The knife-grinder Museum will be in the city and will be interactive"

"... the provincial president also emphasized that the documentary film by Aitor Rei from Ourense," A Ultima Viaxe do Afiador "," will play a leading role in the promotion of the figure of the sharpener ".

"The TVG broadcasts today the Mestre Mateo Awards. "The last trip of the knife-Grinder" is nominated

"... The film can already be seen on various international circuits, but yesterday it began its tour of educational centers and in a municipality where the wheel is a totem, but not the one for sharpening, but the one for the cow cart ..."

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