I Only Rest in the Storm

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I Only Rest in the Storm (2025)

Directed by Pedro Pinho

Drama · 3h 37m

Sergio travels to Guinea-Bissau to work for an NGO as an environmental engineer on a road project between the desert and the forest. There, he becomes entangled in an intimate yet unbalanced relationship with two inhabitants of the city, Diara and Gui. As neo-colonial dynamics among the expatriate community unravel, this fragile bond becomes his only refuge from an impending collapse into solitude or barbarism.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Pedro Pinho
Writer
Pedro Pinho
Director of Photography
Ivo Lopes Araújo
Original Music Composer
Carpotxa, Mazulu
Editor
Pedro Pinho, Rita M. Pestana, Karen Akerman, Cláudia Rita Oliveira
Producer
Filipa Reis, Tatiana Leite, Tiago Hespanha, Juliette Lepoutre, Pierre Menahem, Ioana Lascăr, Radu Stancu

Details

Original title
O Riso e a Faca
Release date
2025-07-09
Runtime
3h 37m
Genres
Drama
Original language
PT
Spoken languages
Portuguese, Haitian; Haitian Creole
Countries
Portugal, Brazil, France, Romania
Production
Uma Pedra no Sapato, Terratreme, Bubbles Project, Still Moving, Atelier de Film, deFilm
Box office
$14,664