IF PIGEONS TURNED TO GOLD
synopsis
Over a five-year period, Pepa Lubojacki documents the lives of four family members, first and foremost his brother David who is an alcoholic and homeless. Using a highly personal, diary-like collage, Lubojacki attempts to lay bare the roots of intergenerational misfortune repeatedly manifested in severe addiction. Text sculptures, long-term observations, synth-infused beats and AI-animated childhood photos merge here into a striking and playful, unsparing yet loving revelation. If Pigeons Turned to Gold is both an act of surrender and a shimmer of hope, a show of strength and a process of resolution. Pepa Lubojacki thus brings the past to life, creating a context that shields David and their cousins, also suffering from addiction, from the judgmental gaze of the outside world – and its ignorance. In their gentle encounter, for one moment they become lonely children once again. Not so much in search of guilt but more healing, the end brings the possibility of a transformation, symbolised in the father’s dilapidated house that Pepa transforms into a safe space: Home, I’m coming.
| international title: | If Pigeons Turned to Gold |
| original title: | If Pigeons Turned to Gold |
| country: | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| sales agent: | Split Screen |
| year: | 2026 |
| genre: | documentary |
| directed by: | Pepa Lubojacki |
| film run: | 110' |
| screenplay: | Pepa Lubojacki |
| cinematography by: | Pepa Lubojacki, Tomáš Šťastný |
| film editing: | Pepa Lubojacki |
| music: | Adam Matej |
| producer: | Klára Mamojková, Wanda Kaprálová |
| co-producer: | Matej Sotnik |
| production: | CLAW films, guča films |























