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Ji.hlava Award Winner Pepa Lubojacki Calls for Compassion in ‘If Pigeons Turned to Gold’: ‘You Can Love People Also as Addicts’
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variety.comMarta Balaga Pepa Lubojacki’s “If Pigeons Turned to Gold” was named the most promising European project at Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival.
The Czech-Slovak co-production follows four family members, including Lubojacki’s own brother and cousins, unhoused for over a decade and struggling with addiction. “I don’t use the word ‘homeless,’ because it has really negative connotations.
Once you say ‘unhoused resident,’ it implies they are still a part of this society,” says the director. “At times, I felt guilty I was better off than my brother.
I wanted to rip off a part of me and just give it to him. But it’s not another depressing story, because I am fed up with them.
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