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.
Winner of the best actress award, to Cleo Diára, in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.

Título original: O Riso e a Faca
Ano: 2025
Classificação: 18 years
Duração: 211 min.
Gênero: Fiction
País: Portugal, France, Brazil, Romania
Tags: Portugal, France, Brazil, Romania, colonialism, international film festivals, awarded films
Cor: Colorido
Direção: Pedro Pinho
Roteiro: Pedro Pinho, Miguel Seabra Lopes, José Filipe Costa, Luísa Homem, Marta Lança, Miguel Carmo, Tiago Hespanha, Leonor Noivo, Luís Miguel Correia, Paul Choquet
Fotografia: Ivo Lopes Araújo
Montagem: Rita M. Pestana, Karen Akerman, Cláudia Oliveira, Pedro Pinho
Elenco: Sérgio Coragem, Cleo Diára, Jonathan Guilherme, Renato Sztutman, Jorge Biague, Bruno Zhu, Kody McCree, Everton Dalman
Produtor: Filipa Reis, Tiago Hespanha, Tatiana Leite, Juliette Lepoutre, Pierre Menahem, Ioana Lascăr, Radu Stancu
Produção: Uma Pedra no Sapato, Terratreme Films, Still Moving, Bubbles Project, De Film
World Sales: Paradise City Sales
Distribuição: Vitrine Filmes
E-mail: [email protected]