I Fear Blue Skies
2025 · 13m · Canada
Directed by Salar Pashtoonyar
Clear blue skies don't bring the same peace for everyone.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Single-room negotiation with a Taliban minister in Dari and Pashto during the 2021 withdrawal — TIFF World Premiere Staff Pick. Geopolitical catastrophe at chamber-piece scale. Yes.
Pashtoonyar compresses an entire geopolitical abandonment into a single room and a single conversation — the economy is devastating and the film's moral stakes are absolute.
TIFF 2025 World Premiere, Vimeo Staff Pick Award — Pashtoonyar collapsing the 2021 Afghan withdrawal into a single room conversation in Dari and Pashto. Twelve minutes of geopolitical catastrophe at intimate scale.
Festivals
- Toronto International Film Festival - 2025, World Premiere