In 1988, Afghanistan sent its first and only astronaut into space. Archival fragments and Afghan music trace a journey that proved home can be farther than the stars.
In 1988, with Afghanistan on the brink of collapse, its first and only astronaut, Abdul Ahad Momand, reached the Mir space station. He brewed tea for his crew and called his mother, making Pashto the fourth language spoken beyond Earth. The film traces a personal and collective line that reminds us of a nation’s dreams, interrupted by conflict and subject to the selective invisibilisation of colonial influence.
