I Only Rest in the Storm
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
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Winner of the Louve d'or, FNC 2025
Winner of the Best Actress award, Un Certain Regard, 2025 Cannes Film Festival
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.
Pedro Pinho
Pedro Pinho was born in Lisbon and has lived in Paris, Barcelona, Maputo, and Mindelo. In 2009, he co-founded the production company Terratreme with five other filmmakers. His first documentary, Bab Sebta (co-directed with Frederico Lobo), premiered at FIDMarseille in 2008, where it won the Marseille Espérance Award. His follow-up, Um Fim do Mundo, premiered in 2013 in the Berlinale Generation section. In 2014, the documentary As Cidades e as Trocas (co-directed with Luísa Homem) premiered at both FIDMarseille and Art of the Real at Lincoln Center in New York. In 2017, his first feature film, The Nothing Factory, premiered at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, where it received the FIPRESCI Prize from the International Critics and went on to win 20 additional awards at festivals worldwide. The film was commercially released in many countries. In 2025, his second feature film, I Only Rest in the Storm, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.
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