FILM TITLE

O Riso e a Faca / I Only Rest in the Storm

18+

13th March 2026 | 08:00 PM
Stein Auditorium

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Image-Description
Country
Portugal, Brazil, France, Romania
Year of release
2025
Genre

Drama
Language
Portuguese, French, English, Creole
Duration
211
Director

Pedro Pinho
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Festival And Awards

Cannes - Un Certain Regard - Best Actress Award

Bangkok IFF - Best Director

Valladolid IFF Seminci - Meeting Point Award

Festival du Nouveau Cinéma - FNC - La Louve d’Or

 Berlin - Around the World in 14 films - Best Director Award 

Synopsis

Sérgio travels to a metropolis in 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 the neo-colonial dynamics among the expatriate community unravel, this fragile bond becomes his only refuge from an impending collapse into solitude or barbarism.

  • Cast

    Sérgio Coragem, Cleo Diára, Jonathan Guilherme.

  • Producer

     Filipa Rei, Tiago Hespanha and Pedro Pinho.

  • Screenplay

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

  • Cinematography

    Ivo Lopes Araújo

  • Editing

    Rita M. Pestana,  Karen Akerman,  Cláudia Oliveira and Pedro Pinho.

  • Sound

    Pablo Lamar

  • Music

    N/A