Introducing MIMPI KITA: CASTLE IN THE AIR
Genre: A sci-fi fantasy set in a retro-futuristic 1960s Malaya
Language: Nogori- Malay- Japanese
Runtime: 72 minutes
Story:A musician enters her dying grandmother’s dream to bring her back- and discovers she’s been dreaming her entire life.
Director's Statement
“Mimpi Kita: Castle In The Air is the film I needed to see as a Malaysian filmmaker —a story that imagines Malaysian narratives in bold, unfamiliar ways. Right now, Malaysian voices are almost invisible in sci-fi and fantasy. We’re making this film to change that. This is our moment to prove Malaysian cinema can deliver the imaginative storytelling audiences are hungry for.
Support this film, and you’re not just enabling one story—you’re opening doors for every unrepresented Malaysian filmmaker who wants to explore more imaginative worlds for the audience. Let’s make this happen together.”
— aaaaafin (Arifin Ajib), Director
About the Director aaaaafin
Trained at the Met Film School, Ealing Studios (London), Arifin Ajib is a Malaysian filmmaker fascinated by how imagination lives in ordinary spaces—in family rooms, inherited objects, the stories grandmothers carry in their dreams.
His award-winning short film My Lor Bak has journeyed through Raindance, Busan, and Nevada, earning recognition for direction and cinematography. But what drives him isn’t accolades—it’s a quiet conviction that Malaysian stories deserve to be told with the imaginative seriousness of sci fi fantasy.
Mimpi Kita: Castle In The Air, his feature directorial debut, is an exploration of this belief. He made this film because he saw young Malaysian wanting to see their world transformed by imagination. That possibility—that hunger—felt worth dedicating years to understand.