17th BIFFes 2026
Jan 29th - 06th Feb 2026
"Woman: Shared Sensibilities, A Collective Voice for Equality"
I ONLY REST IN THE STORM
O RISO E A FACA
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.
ಮರುಭೂಮಿ ಮತ್ತು ಕಾಡಿನ ನಡುವಣ ರಸ್ತೆ ಯೋಜನೆಯೊಂದರಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ಎನ್ಜಿಒ’ದಲ್ಲಿ ಪರಿಸರ ಇಂಜಿನಿಯರ್ ಆಗಿ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡಲು ಬರುವ ಸರ್ಜಿಯೊ, ಗಿನಿಯಾ–ಬಿಸ್ಸೌದಲ್ಲಿನ ಒಂದು ಮಹಾನಗರಕ್ಕೆ ಪ್ರಯಾಣಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಅಲ್ಲಿ, ನಗರ ನಿವಾಸಿಗಳಾದ ಡಿಯಾರಾ ಮತ್ತು ಗುಯಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಅವನು ಸಲುಗೆ ಸಾಧಿಸಿದರೂ ಡೋಲಾಯಮಾನ ಸಂಬಂಧದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಲುಕಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಾನೆ. ವಲಸಿಗ ಸಮುದಾಯದೊಳಗಿನ ನವ–ವಸಾಹತುಶಾಹಿ ಕಾರ್ಯನಿರ್ವಹಿಸುವ ವಿಧಾನಗಳು ನಿಧಾನವಾಗಿ ಬಿಚ್ಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದಂತೆ, ಈ ನಾಜೂಕಾದ ಬಂಧವೇ ಅವನ ಒಂಟಿತನ ಅಥವಾ ಅಧಃಪತನದಿಂದ ತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಏಕೈಕ ಆಸರೆಯಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.
Producer(s) or Production Company:
Uma Pedra No Sapato
Screenplay:
Pedro Pinho, Miguel Seabra Lopes, José Filipe Costa, Luísa Homem, Marta Lança, Miguel Carmo, Tiago Hespanha, Leonor Noivo, Luís Miguel Correia, Paul Choquet
Director of Photography:
Ivo Lopes Araújo
Editor :
Rita M. Pestana, Karen Akerman, Claúdia Rita Oliveira
Music :
Carpotxa, Mazulu
Pedro Pinho (b. 1977) is a Portuguese filmmaker from Lisbon whose career has been shaped by working across Europe and Africa, and by a practice rooted in collective creation and social observation. He co-directed the documentary BAB SEBTA (2008) and later made the fiction UM FIM DO MUNDO (2013). His feature debut THE NOTHING FACTORY (2017) received wide international acclaim and won the FIPRESCI International Critics’ Prize at Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight). His work explores labor, power, and community through hybrid forms blending fiction and documentary. I ONLY REST IN THE STORM is his 2nd feature film.