COUNTRY: Portugal YEAR: 2025 RUNNING TIME: 211 min
DIRECTED BY: Pedro Pinho
LANGUAGE(S): Portuguese, Creole
SUBTITLES: English, German
CAST: Sérgio Coragem, Cleo Diára, Jonathan Guilherme
PRODUCER: Tiago Hespanha, Filipa Reis, Pedro Pinho
WRITTEN BY: Pedro Pinho, Miguel Seabra Lopes, José Filipe Costa, Luísa Homem, Marta Lança, Miguel Carmo, Tiago Hespanha, Leonor Noivo, Luís Miguel Correia, Paul Choquet
EDITED BY: Rita M. Pestana, Karen Akerman, Cláudia Rita Oliveira, Pedro Pinho
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ivo Lopes Araújo
Screenings
Synopsis
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.
Director
Pedro Pinho
Biography
Pedro Pinho, born in Lisbon, is an award-winning film producer, director and cinematographer. He studied film in Lisbon, Paris, Barcelona, Maputo and Mindelo. His first documentary film BAB SEBTA won several awards, including at the FID Marseille and DocLisboa. After the medium-length feature film THE END OF THE WORLD and the documentary TRADING CITIES, he directed THE NOTHING FACTORY, which premiered at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes and won the fipresci prize.
Pinho is co-founder of the Portuguese production collective Terratreme, whose films have screened at major festivals worldwide.
Filmography
Selection: Bab Sebta (2008), The End of the World (2013), Trading Cities (2014), The Nothing Factory (2017), I Only Rest in the Storm (2025)