Movie

I Only Rest in the Storm

★ 7.1/10 · 14 votes 2025 3h 37m Released

Drama

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.

Cast

Cleo Diára Diára Sérgio Coragem Sérgio Jonathan Guilherme Gui J Jorge Quintino Biague Borjan R Renato Sztutman B Bruno Zhu