In Lisbon, pigeon fancier Senhor Jorge Cunha continues an ancient practice in a fast-evolving city

In fast-gentrifying Lisbon, pigeon fancier Jorge Cunha keeps up a fading tradition, rising daily to clean his loft and fly his birds.

A gentle, observational portrait of devotion to a vanishing craft in a changing city.

As a window into the life of Senhor Jorge Cunha, a pigeon fancier from Lisbon, director George Daniell captures a routine unchanged by time for short film O Jogo dos Pombos (The Pigeon Game). In the Portuguese capital –

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