I Only Rest in the Storm

Best Actress, Un Certain Regard - Cannes 2025

Original language: Portuguese, Creole

Subtitles: Romanian, English

Directed by: Pedro Pinho

Country: Portugal, France, Brazil, Romania

Year of production: 2025

Length: 211 minutes

Genre: Drama

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.

Credits

Pedro Pinho – Director

Pedro Pinho, Miguel Seabra Lopes, José Filipe Costa, Luísa Homem, Marta Lança, Miguel Carmo, Tiago Hespanha, Leonor Noivo, Luís Miguel Correia, Paul Choquet – Script

Casting

Sérgio Coragem

Cleo Diára

Jonathan Guilherme