I ONLY REST IN THE STORM

葡萄牙环境工程师塞尔吉奥前往西非大都会，为一家非政府组织工作，参与一条连接沙漠与丛林的筑路工程。在恶劣的环境与孤寂中，他与当地的迪亚拉和吉形成了一段亲密却失衡的关系。随着外派社群内部的新殖民权力关系逐渐揭露，这脆弱的情感纽带成为他抵御孤独与崩溃的唯一庇护。 

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. 

导演：佩德罗·皮诺
编剧：佩德罗·皮诺、米格尔·塞亚布拉·洛佩斯、若泽·菲利普·科斯塔、路易莎·奥门、玛尔塔·兰萨、米格尔·卡尔莫、蒂亚戈·赫斯潘哈、莱奥诺·诺伊沃、路易斯·米格尔·科雷亚、保罗·肖凯
主演：塞尔吉奥·科拉坚、克莱奥·迪亚拉、乔纳森·吉尔赫梅
制片人：菲利帕·雷斯、蒂亚戈·赫斯潘哈、佩德罗·皮诺
摄影：伊沃·洛佩斯·阿劳若
类型：剧情长片
对白语言：葡萄牙语、克里奥尔语
制片公司：Uma Pedra no Sapato、Terratreme Films、Still Moving、Bubbles Project、deFilm

Director: Pedro Pinho
Screenwriter: Pedro Pinho, Miguel Seabra Lopes, José Filipe Costa, Luísa Homem, Marta Lança, Miguel Carmo, Tiago Hespanha, Leonor Noivo, Luís Miguel Correia, Paul Choquet
Cast: Sérgio Coragem, Cleo Diára, Jonathan Guilherme
Producer: Filipa Reis, Tiago Hespanha, Pedro Pinho
Cinematographer: Ivo Lopes Araújo
Genre: Narrative Feature Film
Language: Portuguese, Creole
Production Company: Uma Pedra no Sapato, Terratreme Films, Still Moving, Bubbles Project, deFilm

佩德罗·皮诺出生于里斯本，曾在巴黎、巴塞罗那、马普托和明德卢生活。2009年，他与五位导演共同创立了制片公司Terratreme。他的首部纪录片《休达之门》（与弗雷德里科·洛博联合执导）于2008年在马赛FID首映并获奖；2013年作品《世界尽头》入选柏林电影节青年单元；2014年纪录片《城市与交换》（与路易莎·奥门联合执导）入选马赛FID与纽约林肯中心“艺术真实”单元。 

2017年首部长片《破败工厂》入围戛纳导演双周单元并获国际影评人联盟奖，此后在全球获得二十多个奖项并在多国上映。2025年，他的第二部长片《笑刃荒途》入选戛纳电影节“一种关注”单元。 

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, winning the Marseille Espérance Award. Um Fim do Mundo premiered in 2013 in the Berlinale Generation section. As Cidades e as Trocas (co-directed with Luísa Homem) screened at both FIDMarseille and Art of the Real at Lincoln Center in 2014. 

His first feature film The Nothing Factory (2017) premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, winning the FIPRESCI Prize and 20 more awards worldwide. In 2025, his second feature film I ONLY REST IN THE STORM premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival. 

继《破败工厂》之后，《笑刃荒途》继续以更激进的方式探索叙事中的话语结构，让角色在当代最痛处——“新殖民边界”之上发声。影片试图构建一个多声部的旅程，通过不同的视角探讨这一尚未解决的核心问题。 

影片深入炎热的空气、空调办公室、白色吉普车、尘土街道与喧嚣派对，展现了后殖民资本主义语境下的外派群体生态。 

故事的核心，是欧洲与非洲之间永无止境的“相遇”，以及在西非城市夜色、街头与暗室中展开的酷儿自我追寻。在这场暴烈的身份搏斗中，闪现着逃逸的路径、颠覆的可能，或仅存的温柔痕迹。 

一条连接沙漠与丛林的道路正在修建——一个充满失败、权力与欲望的“现代寓言”。在这片拒绝被驯服的土地上，三位角色的交织既是权力的写照，也是渴望与孤独的映照。 

After The Nothing Factory, The Laughter and the Knife (I Only Rest in the Storm) seeks to further radicalize the exploration of discursiveness within narrative, inviting characters to speak from the wound of our time: the neo-colonial border. It builds a polyphonic journey of perspectives around a problem far from resolution. 

Immersed in suffocating heat, air-conditioned NGO offices, white jeeps, dusty streets, and lavish parties, the film portrays the expat community within post-colonial capitalism. 

At its heart lies the endless “encounter” between Europe and Africa, and a queer struggle for becoming—unfolding in the nightclubs, streets, and backrooms of a West African city. Within this violent quest for transcendence, fleeting tenderness and radical subversion coexist. 

A road is being built between desert and jungle—a mission mired in power, failure, and desire. Amidst this landscape that resists taming, three characters’ entanglement mirrors both power structures and the longing for connection and escape.