“The Bookshop” is making its way to the United States. Isabel Coixet’s award-winning drama has been acquired by Greenwich Entertainment, Deadline confirms. The Emily Mortimer-starrer screened at the Berlinale in February.

An adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1978 novel, “The Bookshop” is set in 1950s England. A widow living in a seaside village (Mortimer) “pursues her lifelong dream of opening a bookshop. As she introduces the townsfolk to the world’s best literature and stirs a cultural awakening, her efforts are ruthlessly opposed by a powerful local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson), causing a reclusive resident (Bill Nighy) to join the fight to keep the bookshop open.”

The film hits U.S. theaters August 24.

“The Bookshop” took home trophies for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay at Spain’s prestigious Goya Awards.

“We’ve always admired Isabel’s work and her great leads so it’s a special treat to have the opportunity to handle the U.S. release of this utterly charming and resonant ode to reading and bookshops,” said Greenwich’s co-managing director Ed Arentz.

“Why does everybody talk about the lack of female directors and nobody does a damn thing?” Coixet asked back in 2015. “We need action. We need film financiers with a true and sincere sense of what they can and must do — and do it. As they say in ‘Jerry Maguire,’ ‘Show me the money.’ Maybe this is asking for something impossible. Sincere financiers, I mean … We are a shocking minority. And what’s worse, a diminishing minority. And our salaries are always lower than our male counterparts. I will never stop fighting to make films. Never. It’s my life,” she said.

“Learning to Drive,” “Elegy,” and “The Secret Life of Words” are among Coixet’s previous credits. The Spanish filmmaker’s upcoming projects include “Light on Broken Glass,” a musical about a veteran Broadway actress, and “Elisa y Marcela,” a drama about Spain’s first same-sex marriage.