Overview

• Pedro Pinho directs his latest work, a 3½-hour hybrid documentary-fiction that follows Portuguese engineer Sergio in Guinea-Bissau.
• The film’s lead performance earned an acting prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
• French critics laud its immersive exploration of colonial and decolonial tensions within humanitarian road-building projects.
• Striking visuals juxtapose the Sahel desert with lush northern forests to highlight environmental and cultural divides.
• Météore Films is slated to unveil a five-hour extended cut in autumn 2025.