Cleo Diára represents Portugal as a European Shooting Star, and she is arriving with serious momentum. In Pedro Pinho’s I Only Rest in the Storm [+see also:
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film profile] (2018) and will next appear in the Prime Video series Lisbon Noir directed by Artur Ribeiro. We spoke with Diára about awards, career shifts, her bold visual presence, and the director she would love to work with. Stay until the end to find out whose call she is hoping for next.