If Pigeons Turned to Gold

LOGLINE:

Have you ever grieved someone who hasn’t died yet?

SYNOPSIS:

A raw, self-made and deeply personal work, IF PIGEONS TURNED TO GOLD cuts into addiction and intergenerational trauma, capturing several years in the lives of four family members. Pepa, the director, records on an iPhone and tries to understand why their beloved older brother and cousins live unhoused and experience substance addiction. Formally inventive and playful, diaristic footage enters into dialogue with stylised memories, AI-animated photographs and graphic interventions, shaping a plural voice that negotiates with the past. Unsentimentally, the film traces the causes and fallout of addiction, asking where love ends, control begins, and what respect truly demands: to save, or to let go.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

>> 76th Berlinale / Forum: Best Documentary Film, Caligari Film Award (DE)
>> 45th Istanbul Film Festival / Specter (TR)
>> 23rd Crossing Europe Film Festival / Competition Documentary: Best Documentary Film (AT)
>> 23rd Neiße Nysa Nisa Film Festival / České panorama (DE)
>> 66th Krakow Film Festival / Documentary Competition: The Silver Horn, Student Award (PL)
>> 73rd Sydney Film Festival / International Documentaries (AU)