

I Only Rest in the Storm
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
- $14.7K
- Language
- Portuguese
- africa
- third world
- engineer
- lgbt
- bisexual man
- neo-colonialism
- ngo
- west africa
- guinea bissau
- gay theme
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Portugal, Brazil, France, Romania
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United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York Film Festival5 Oct 2025
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival21 Aug 2025
AustriaAT
- PremiereVienna International Film Festival21 Oct 2025
BelgiumBE
- PremierePink Screens Festival (Brussels)31 Oct 2025
BrazilBR
- PremiereRio de Janeiro International Film Festival9 Oct 2025
- PremiereSão Paulo International Film Festival17 Oct 2025
- Theatrical1830 Apr 2026
ChinaCN
- PremiereWuhan bǎilin Film Festival1 Nov 2025
- PremiereBeijing Queer Film Festival7 Nov 2025
- PremiereHong Kong International Film Festival2 Apr 2026
ColombiaCO
- PremiereFestival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias15 Apr 2026
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival17 May 2025
- Theatrical9 Jul 2025
GermanyDE
- PremiereMunich International Film Festival29 Jun 2025
- Theatrical1828 May 2026
IndonesiaID
- Theatrical (limited)Special Screening27 Dec 2025
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/1630 Oct 2025
SingaporeSG
- PremiereSingapore International Film Festival6 Dec 2025
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