# I Only Rest in the Storm (2025)

> An environmental engineer’s West African assignment becomes an absorbing encounter with queer intimacy, colonial afterlives, and a predecessor’s unresolved disappearance.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/1069945

## Facts

- Runtime: 211 min
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Pedro Pinho
- Cast: Cleo Diára, Sérgio Coragem, Jonathan Guilherme, Jorge Quintino Biague, Renato Sztutman, Bruno Zhu, Kody McCree, Everton Dalman
- TMDB rating: 7.0/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36642485/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: glacial
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: none
- Mood: contemplative, melancholic, intimate, quiet evening, arthouse cinema night

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