Sergio travels to a West African metropolis to work as an environmental engineer on the construction of a road between the desert and the forest. There he forms an intimate but unbalanced relationship with two city residents, Diara and Gui. He soon learns that an Italian engineer, assigned to the same mission as him a few months earlier, has mysteriously disappeared.
Pedro Pinho
Born in Lisbon (Portugal) in 1977. In 2009, he co-founded the production company Terratreme with five other filmmakers. His first documentary, ‘Bab Sebta’ (co-directed with Frederico Lobo), was awarded at FIDMarseille in 2008. His follow-up, ‘Um fim do mundo’, premiered in 2013 in the Berlinale Generation section. In 2014, the documentary ‘As cidades e as trocas’ (co-directed with Luísa Homem) premiered at both FIDMarseille and Art of the Real at Lincoln Center in New York. In 2017, his first feature film, ‘The Nothing Factory’, premiered at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, where it received the FIPRESCI Prize and went on to win 20 additional awards at festivals worldwide. In 2025, his second feature film, ‘I Only Rest in the Storm’, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival, where actress Cleo Diára won the award for best performance.
DIRECTOR
Pedro Pinho
SCREENPLAY
Pedro Pinho, Miguel Seabra Lopes, José Filipe Costa, Luísa Homem, Marta Lança, Miguel Carmo, Tiago Hespanha, Leonor Noivo, Luís Miguel Correia, Paul Choquet
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ivo Lopes Araújo
EDITOR
Rita M. Pestana, Karen Akerman, Cláudia Oliveira, Pedro Pinho
SOUND
Jules Valeur, Pablo Lamar
MUSIC
Carpotxa, Mazulu
PRODUCTION
Filipa Reis, Tiago Hespanha, Pedro Pinho, Juliette Lepoutre, Pierre Menahem, Ioana Lascar, Radu Stancu, Tatiana Leite
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Uma Pedra no Sapato, Terratreme Filmes, Still Moving, Bubbles Project, deFilm
CAST
Sérgio Coragem, Cleo Diára, Jonathan Guilherme, Jorge Biague, Binta Rosadore, Nastio Mosquito, Giovanni Maucieri, Marçalina Djibril
RUNNING TIME
210 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2025
VERSION
V.O. Portuguese with Spanish and English subtitles.
COUNTRY
Portugal, France, Romania, Brazil
CONTACT
Paradise City Sales
IN SPAIN
Vitrine Films
Screenings
V.O. Portuguese with Spanish and English subtitles.
Pedro Pinho, Miguel Seabra Lopes, José Filipe Costa, Luísa Homem, Marta Lança, Miguel Carmo, Tiago Hespanha, Leonor Noivo, Luís Miguel Correia, Paul Choquet
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ivo Lopes Araújo
EDITOR
Rita M. Pestana, Karen Akerman, Cláudia Oliveira, Pedro Pinho
SOUND
Jules Valeur, Pablo Lamar
MUSIC
Carpotxa, Mazulu
PRODUCTION
Filipa Reis, Tiago Hespanha, Pedro Pinho, Juliette Lepoutre, Pierre Menahem, Ioana Lascar, Radu Stancu, Tatiana Leite
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Uma Pedra no Sapato, Terratreme Filmes, Still Moving, Bubbles Project, deFilm
CAST
Sérgio Coragem, Cleo Diára, Jonathan Guilherme, Jorge Biague, Binta Rosadore, Nastio Mosquito, Giovanni Maucieri, Marçalina Djibril
RUNNING TIME
210 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2025
VERSION
V.O. Portuguese with Spanish and English subtitles.
