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I Only Rest in the Storm

I Only Rest in the Storm

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I Only Rest in the Storm

2025

3h 31m

7.1(14 votes)

Drama

Overview

Sergio 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 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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Uma Pedra no Sapato

Terratreme

Bubbles Project

Still Moving

Atelier de Film

deFilm

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Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Cleo Diára

Cleo Diára

Diára

Sérgio Coragem

Sérgio Coragem

Sérgio

Jonathan Guilherme

Jonathan Guilherme

Gui

Jorge Quintino Biague

Borjan

Renato Sztutman

Bruno Zhu

Kody McCree

Everton Dalman

Nástio Mosquito

Horatio

Giovanni Maucieri

Creative team

Directed by: Pedro Pinho
Written by: Pedro Pinho
Produced by: Filipa Reis
Tatiana Leite

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