Alfonso Cuarón's son brings own film to Toronto Fest

Director Jonás Cuarón is following in the footsteps of his famous father with a new film "Desierto."

Jonás is the son of Alfonso Cuarón, the Mexican director who made the Oscar-winning 2013 film "Gravity."

"Desierto" - or "Desert"- stars Gael García Bernal and is set to open Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Jonás has worked with his father on scripts before, and this time he paired up with Gabriel García Marquez's grandson, Mateo García, to write the script for Desierto.

García Bernal plays the role of a migrant fleeing from a U.S. vigilante. "Since I started writing the script, I was always thinking of Gael," Jonás Cuarón said Wednesday.

The movie was filmed largely in the Baja California desert. "The desert is one of the most important characters in this film," Cuarón said.

The film's producers are Alfonso and Carlos Cuarón.