This Unreleased Gem is available exclusively on Video Store, only until 25 September 2026 UTC.

FAR FROM HOME, EVERYTHING COMES UNDONE.

Sérgio travels to a metropolis in Guinea-Bissau 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 the neo-colonial dynamics among the expatriate community unravel, this fragile bond becomes his only refuge from an impending collapse into solitude or barbarism.

A beguiling, transgressive drama examining the lingering effects of colonization on contemporary Africa, from Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Pinho. Premiering in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Queer Palm and where Cleo Diára won the section's award for Best Performance. An epic, slow-burning chronicle of power, desire and displacement under neocolonial capitalism.

Languages: Portuguese, with some Creole dialogue. English subtitles available.