{"id":14913,"date":"2020-02-24T14:19:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T05:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/24\/behrouz-boochanis-book-no-friend-but-the-mountains-to-be-made-into-a-film"},"modified":"2020-02-24T14:19:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T05:19:26","slug":"behrouz-boochanis-book-no-friend-but-the-mountains-to-be-made-into-a-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14913","title":{"rendered":"Behrouz Boochani&#8217;s book, No Friend But The Mountains, to be made into a film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kurdish Iranian writer says the film will bring more attention to Australia\u2019s brutal immigration detention regime<\/p>\n<p>Behrouz Boochani\u2019s award-winning debut book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jul\/31\/writing-from-manus-prison-a-scathing-critique-of-domination-and-oppression\">No Friend But The Mountains<\/a>, will be made into a feature film with production to begin in Australia in mid-2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Kurdish Iranian writer and journalist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/nov\/14\/behrouz-boochani-free-voice-manus-island-refugees-new-zealand-australia\">who <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/nov\/14\/behrouz-boochani-free-voice-manus-island-refugees-new-zealand-australia\">is currently living in New Zealand after six years in immigration detention<\/a>, said the film adaptation would bring more international attention to the truth behind Australia\u2019s brutal immigration detention regime.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/24\/behrouz-boochanis-book-no-friend-but-the-mountains-to-be-made-into-a-film\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurdish Iranian writer says the film will bring more attention to Australia\u2019s brutal immigration detention regimeBehrouz Boochani\u2019s award-winning debut book, No Friend But The Mountains, will be made into a feature film with production to begin in Aust&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,388,935,511,71,69,932,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-behrouz-boochani","category-books","category-culture","category-film","category-manus-island","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14914,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14913\/revisions\/14914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}