I Only Rest in the Storm

I Only Rest in the Storm (2025)

O Riso e a Faca

Sergio travels to Guinea-Bissau 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.

Date of release
2025-07-09
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (15)
Runtime
3h 37m
Genres
Drama
Director
Pedro Pinho

Casting

Interesting facts

I Only Rest in the Storm is a 2025 drama film produced, co-written and directed by Pedro Pinho. Starring Sérgio Coragem, Cleo Diára and Jonathan Guilherme, it follows a white Portuguese environmental engineer who takes a job position in Guinea-Bissau, and his complicated relationship with two black locals.

Production

In October 2018, the project received a €141,000 production grant from the Romanian National Film Center. In November 2020, it was selected to participate in the European Coproductions meeting, initiated by Seville European Film Festival.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended