Sérgio travels to a metropolis in West Africa 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 inhabitants of the city, Diara and Gui. As the neo-colonial dynamics among the expatriate community unravel, this fragile bond becomes his only refuge from an impending collapse into solitude or barbarism.
I Only Rest in the Storm
Pedro Pinho
Fiction / 35mm, HD / 210' / 2025
With Sérgio Coragem, Cléo Diára, Jonathan Guilherme, Jorge Biague, Binta Rosadore, Nastio Mosquito, Giovanni Maucieri, Marçalina Djibril, Roxana Ionesco, Marinho de Pina, João Santos Lopes, Hermínio Amaro, Paulo Leal, João Pedro Sousa, Hamed Nah, Renato Sztutman, Bruno Zhu, Kody Mccree, Valentina Cirelli Directing Pedro Pinho Script Pedro Pinho, Miguel Seabra Lopes, Luísa Homem, Marta Lança, José Filipe Costa, Miguel Carmo, Tiago Hespanha, Leonor Noivo, Luís Miguel Correia, Paul Choquet Cinematography Ivo Lopes Araújo Sound Jules Valeur Production Manager Eduardo Nasser Editing Rita M. Pestana, Karen Akerman, Claúdia Rita Oliveira, Pedro Pinho Colorist Claudiu Doagă Sound Editing Pablo Lamar Sound Mix Marius Leftarache Producers Filipa Reis, Tiago Hespanha, Pedro Pinho
