I ONLY REST IN THE STORM

by Pedro Pinho

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SYNOPSIS

Sérgio travels to a metropolis in 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 the neo-colonial dynamics among the expatriate community unravel, this fragile bond becomes his only refuge from an impending collapse into solitude or barbarism.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Produced by UMA PEDRA NO SAPATO, TERRATREME FILMS | Coproduced by STILL MOVING, BUBBLES PROJECT, DEFILM
Countries PORTUGAL, FRANCE, BRAZIL, ROMANIA | Language PORTUGUESE, CREOLE | Duration 217 MIN

Starring SÉRGIO CORRAGEM (DAMNED SUMMER, WILL-O’-THE-WISP), CLEO DIÁRA (DIAMANTINO), JONATHAN GUILHERME

By the director of THE NOTHING FACTORY, UM FILM DO MUNDO
By the producers of GRAND TOUR, THE NOTHING FACTORY, TIGER STRIPES

PRESS QUOTES

“It’s a gargantuan, continent-crossing feat.” - INDIEWIRE (CRITICS’ PICK, GRADE A-)

"Pedro Pinho’s new film is a kind of brilliant madness — the sort of three-and-a-half-hour masterpiece that, in an ideal world, would be shown in competition at Cannes." - LIBÉRATION

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