Veteran Portuguese producer Paulo Branco has begun principal photography on the €4.5 million ($5.3 million) dystopian drama “Aqui,” directed by Tiago Guedes ad shooting in Spain and Portugal.

Acclaimed South African and Australian novelist, J.M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, sold the rights to his “Jesus” trilogy to Branco, on condition that the film is shot entirely in Spanish.

The “Jesus” trilogy, published in the 2010s, explores how the English language is taking over the world and reflects Coetzee’s interest in the Global South and in particular Argentine literature.

In the film, child refugee David (played by first-time actors Álex Peláez and Hugo Encuentra) befriends Simón (Manolo Solo) on a boat travelling to a no-man’s land. Upon their arrival Simón me

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