2025 | Portugal, France, Brazil, Romania | Fiction

I Only Rest in the Storm [unabridged version]

  • Portuguese English 330 mins
  • Director | Pedro Pinho
  • Writer | Pedro Pinho
  • Producer | Filipa Reis, Tatiana Leite, Tiago Hespanha, Juliette Lepoutre, Pierre Menahem, Ioana Lascăr, Radu Stancu

STATUS: Released

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Sérgio travels to a West Africa metropolis to work for an NGO as an environmental engineer on a road project between the desert and the jungle. There, he becomes entangled in an intimate yet unbalanced relationship with two city dwellers, Diara and Gui. As the neo-colonial dynamics within the expatriate community unravel, this fragile bond becomes his only refuge from an impending collapse into solitude or barbarism.

Colonialism Intimacy Disorientation Identity Exile
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