Un Certain Regard - Best Performance, Cannes Film Festival 2025
Sergio, a Portuguese environmental engineer, travels to Guinea Bissau to conduct an impact report for a road-building project. As he grapples with heat and isolation, he meets Diara and Gui—two locals equally yearning to find their own way. But as tensions arise within their ambiguous relationship and as Sergio understands the capitalist and post- colonial dynamics at play around his mission, they each have to confront how their identities shape them in a globalized world.
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 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. In 2025, his second feature film, O Riso e a Faca, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival 2025.
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