I Thought Films Were Made In The Skies

I Thought Films Were Made in the Skies begins as a documentary following Kiyan, a filmmaker from Quetta, as he attempts to make a short fiction film with his parents, telling the simple story of a girl who dreams of seeing a mountain sunset. As the process unfolds, the film captures something far more intimate: Kiyan’s struggle with artistic control, family dynamics, and the fragile emotions that surface when his parents become both actors and mirrors of time, silence, and memory. Gradually, the boundaries between fiction and documentary blur, until it is unclear whether we are documenting Kiyan’s film or have become part of it ourselves. The result is a quietly disarming meditation on authorship, creation, and the longing to be seen.