I Only Rest in the Storm
Sergio, a Portuguese environmental engineer, travels to Guinea Bissau to conduct an impact report for a road-building project. As he grapples with heat and isolation, he meets Diara and Guillermhe—two locals equally yearning to find their own way. But as tensions arise within their ambiguous relationship and as Sergio understands the capitalist and post-colonial dynamics at play around his mission, they each have to confront how their identities shape them in a globalized world.
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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Pedro Pinho, born in Lisbon, is an award-winning film producer, director and cinematographer. He studied film in Lisbon, Paris, Barcelona, Maputo and Mindelo. His first documentary film BAB SEBTA won several awards, including at the FID Marseille and DocLisboa. After the medium-length feature film THE END OF THE WORLD and the documentary TRADING CITIES, he directed THE NOTHING FACTORY, which premiered at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes and won the fipresci prize. Pinho is co-founder of the Portuguese production collective Terratreme, whose films have screened at major festivals worldwide.