O RISO E A FACA

Portugal, France, Brazil, Romania

Fiction

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.

Directed by: Pedro Pinho
Written by: Pedro Pinho, Miguel Seabra Lopes, Luísa Homem, Marta Lança, José Filipe Costa
Produced by: Filipa Reis, Tiago Hespanha, Pedro Pinho, Juliette Lepoutre, Pierre Menahem, Tatiana Leite, Ioanna Lascar, Radu Stancu
Cinematography: Ivo Lopes Araújo
Editing: Rita Pestana, Karen Akerman, Cláudia Rita Oliveira, Pedro Pinho,
Production Design: Cammile Lemonnier, Livia Lattanzio, Ana Meleiro
Costume Design: Camille Lemonnier, Livia Lattanzio, Ana Meleiro
Make-Up & Hair: Ami Camará
Sound: Jules Valeur, Pablo Lamar, Marius Leftărache, Florin Tăbăcaru
Visual Effects: Thomas Duval, Alexis Vieil
Casting: Luisa Homem
Cast: Sérgio Coragem (Sérgio), Cleo Diára (Diára), Jonathan Guilherme (Gui), Jorge Biague (Budjan), Binta Rosadore (Bebê), Nástio Mosquito (Horácio), Giovanni Maucieri (Giovanni), Marçalina Djibril (Marçalina), Roxana Ionesco (Joana), Marinho de Pina (Marinho)

Production, Press/Social Media Agency:
Uma Pedra no Sapato
https://www.umapedranosapato.com

World Sales:
Paradise City
https://www.paradisecity-films.com