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IF PIGEONS TURNED TO GOLD | Astra Film Festival

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IF PIGEONS TURNED TO GOLD

Name: IF PIGEONS TURNED TO GOLD
Released: 2026
Duration: 110 min

Pepa Lubojacki / Czech Republic, Slovakia / 2026 / 110 min

Filming on an iPhone and making old family photos speak and move with AI, Pepa asks why addiction and homelessness keep returning in the family—and whether love means saving someone or letting go.

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About the film

Over seven years, Pepa films their brother and cousins through homelessness, addiction and moments of fragile closeness, while questioning their own need to rescue them. Rough iPhone footage collides with AI-animated family photos, graphics, electronic beats and a talking pigeon. The unruly collage gives shape to memory, shame and helplessness, refusing both pity and easy answers about where care ends and control begins.

ProducerKlára Mamojková, Wanda Kaprálová, Matej Sotník

SoundJakub Trš

CinematographyTomáš Šťastný, Pepa Lubojacki

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