DESIERTO Clips and TV Spots Witness the new DESIERTO clips and TV spots! The film, written and directed by Jonás Cuarón, stars Gael García Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Diego Cataño, and Butch McCain. DESIERTO will be released in theaters next Friday. What begins as a hopeful journey to seek a better life becomes a harrowing and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous U.S.-Mexican border. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they continuously discover there’s nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer.