I Only Rest in the Storm
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- Runtime
- 211 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Sérgio Coragem
- Cleo Diára
- Jonathan Guilherme
- Jorge Quintino Biague
- Renato Sztutman
- Bruno Zhu
- Kody McCree
- Everton Dalman
- Nástio Mosquito
- Giovanni Maucieri
- Binta Rosadore
- Marcalina Djibril
- Roxana Ionesco
- Marinho de Pina
- Paulo Leal
- Odete Semedo
- Edite Cabral
- Eusebio Incanha
Director
- Pedro Pinho
Producers
- Filipa Reis
- Tatiana Leite
- Tiago Hespanha
- Juliette Lepoutre
- Pierre Menahem
- Ioana Lascăr
- Radu Stancu
