I Only Rest in the Storm

(2025)

★ 7.1 IMDb · 14 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2025

Runtime: 211 мин

Country: Portugal, Brazil

Director: Pedro Pinho

Cast: Cleo Diára, Sérgio Coragem, Jonathan Guilherme, Jorge Quintino Biague, Renato Sztutman, Bruno Zhu, Kody McCree, Everton Dalman, Nástio Mosquito, Giovanni Maucieri

Plot

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.