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I Only Rest in the Storm

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Sérgio 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 jungle. 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.

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Synopsis Sérgio 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 jungle. 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.
Director
Pedro Pinho
Producer
Tiago Hespanha, Pedro Pinho, Filipa Reis
Screenwriter
Pedro Pinho, Miguel Seabra Lopes, José Filipe Costa, Luísa Homem, Marta Lança, Miguel Carmo, Tiago Hespanha, Leonor Noivo, Luís Miguel Correia, Paul Choquet
Production Co
Terratreme Filmes, Bubbles Project, Still Moving, Uma Pedra no Sapato, deFilm
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Portuguese
Runtime
3h 31m