Behrouz Boochani’s award-winning debut book, No Friend But The Mountains, will be made into a feature film with production to begin in Australia in mid-2021.
The film adaption of No Friend But The Mountains will be a collaborative project between three Australian production companies: Aurora Films, Sweetshop & Green and Hoodlum Entertainment, and will be filmed primarily in Australia.
No Friend But The Mountains was written while in detention and translated in collaboration with interpreter Moones Mansoubi and academic Omid Tofighian.
The journalist also filmed the documentary Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time about life on Manus using a smartphone hidden from guards.