Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Year: 2026
Duration: 110'
Pepa Lubojacki, 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. 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.
Biography
film director
Pepa Lubojacki
short documentary film About-hair was nominated for the Magnesia Award in 2019. It was screened at the Ji.hlava IDFF, Prague shorts (Czech Republic), River Film festival (Italy), Cineffable (France), MakeDox (Macedonia), Filmfest Weiterstadt (Germany) and Art200 (Romania). Pepa lived for two years in London, where they organized the Short Film Festival for a small independent gallery. For several years they worked as a programmer for the QFF Mezipatra, and co-organised the cultural festival Queer eye. They worked as a programmer of FAMUFEST. They also worked as a discussion moderator at the Ji.hlava IDFF.
FILMOGRAFIA
O-chluz (About-hair, cm, 2019), If pigeons turned to Gold (2026).
Declaration
film director
“I’ve approached such a deeply personal form of storytelling through brutal honesty. I used this term in the film, but it’s so true. I think it was the only way for me to tell the story authentically. But, to be honest, it was also brutal for me. To revisit certain memories, to dig into topics I was not entirely ready to touch to such an extent. It’s very important to be careful when one works with their own trauma (and in general when filmmakers work with someone else’s trauma). Extra special care must be taken. And I was not fully ready for what the process of making this film would mean to me.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Pepa Lubojacki. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tomáš Šťastný, Pepa Lubojacki. EDITING: Pepa Lubojacki. MUSIC: Adam Matej. CAST: David Richter, Pepa Lubojacki, David Lubojacki, Marco Arnone. PRODUCTION: Klára Mamojková, Wanda Kaprálová for CLAW films. COPRODUCTION: Matej Sotník for Guča films, Czech Television, FAMU Film School. CONTACT: Lorena Morin, Splitscreen lorena@splitscreen.hr
