I Only Rest in the Storm

I Only Rest in the Storm

4.7 / Rating 2025
genre: Drama
language: Portuguese
country: Portugal

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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I Only Rest in the Storm is a 2025 drama film directed and written by Pedro Pinho. It stars Sérgio Coragem, Cleo Diára and Jonathan Guilherme. It is a Portuguese-Brazilian-French-Romanian international co-production.

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