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.

The screening was made possible with the support of the Camões Institute – Portuguese Language Centre in Budapest.

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Cannes Film Festival 2025 - Un Certain Regard: Best Actress Prize

Pedro Pinho was born in Lisbon and is a founding member of the production company Terratreme. His first documentary, Bab Sebta, won an award at FIDMarseille in 2008, and he went on to make several documentaries that premiered at prestigious festivals. His first feature film, The Nothing Factory, debuted in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2017, winning the FIPRESCI Prize and over twenty additional international awards. His second feature, I Only Rest in the Storm, premiered in 2025 in the Un Certain Regard section of the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival where Cleo Diára won the best actress award.

Bab Sebta (2008)
As Cidades e As Trocas (2014)
The Nothing Factory (2017)

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Director: Pedro Pinho
Cast: Sérgio Coragem, Cleo Diára, Jonathan Guilherme
Cinematography: Ivo Lopes Araújo
Screenwriter: Pedro Pinho, Miguel Seabra Lopes, José Filipe Costa, Luísa Homem, Marta Lança, Miguel Carmo, Tiago Hespanha, Leonor Noivo, Luís Miguel Correia, Paul Choquet
Producer: Filipa Reis, Tiago Hespanha, Pedro Pinho
Editor: Rita M. Pestana, Karen Akerman, Cláudia Oliveira, Pedro Pinho
Music: Jules Valeur
Hungarian Distributor: -
Colour: colour
min: 211 mins