Sérgio 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 jungle. 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.
Actors: Sérgio Coragem, Cléo Diára, Jonathan Guilherme, Jorge Biague, Binta Rosadore, Nastio Mosquito, Giovanni Maucieri, Marçalina Djibril, Roxana Ionesco, Marinho de Pina, João Santos Lopes, Hermínio Amaro, Paulo Leal, João Pedro Sousa, Hamed Nah, Renato Sztutman, Bruno Zhu, Kody Mccree, Valentina Cirelli
Director: Pedro Pinho
Script: Pedro Pinho, Miguel Seabra Lopes, Luísa Homem, Marta Lança, José Filipe Costa, Miguel Carmo, Tiago Hespanha, Leonor Noivo, Luís Miguel Correia, Paul Choquet
Photography: Ivo Lopes Araújo
Sound Direction: Jules Valeur
Production Director: Eduardo Nasser
1º Assistant Director: Tiago Hespanha
Art Direction and Wardrobe: Camille Lemonnier, Livia Lattanzio, Ana Meleiro
Make-up and Hair: Ami Camará
Editing: Rita M. Pestana, Karen Akerman, Claúdia Rita Oliveira, Pedro Pinho
Color Correction: Claudiu Doagă
Sound Editing: Pablo Lamar
Sound Mixing: Marius Leftarache
Producer: Filipa Reis, Tiago Hespanha, Pedro Pinho
Produced by: Uma Pedra no Sapato, Terratreme Filmes
Coproduced by: Still Moving, deFilm, Bubbles Project
Financed by: Instituto Do Cinema E Do Audiovisual, Aide Aux Hinémas Du Monde - Centre National Du Cinéma Et De Limage Animée - Institut Français, Centre National Du Cinéma Et De L'image Animée Et De L'instituto Do Cinema E Do Audiovisual, Aide À La Coproduction D'œeuvres Cinématographiques Franco-portugaises, Ancine - Agência Nacional Do Cinema, Banco Regional De Desenvolvimento Do Extremo Sul, Fundo Setorial Do Audiovisual, Centrul Național Al Cinematografiei România, Rádio Televisão Portuguesa, Programa Ibermedia, Carrefour, Havas Media, Fundo De Apoio Ao Turismo E Ao Cinema, Programa Garantir Cultura, Creative Europe Media of the European Union, Avanpost Media
Portuguese Sales: Magenta/Uma Pedra No Sapato
World Sales: Paradise City Sales
Festivals and Awards
Cannes Festival
Un Certain Regard - Compétition (FR 05.2025)
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