In its opening weekend, the film grossed $1.2 million from 371 theaters, finishing 13th at the box office. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 2014, and it was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014. On July 31, 2014, it was announced that the film would be released on November 7, 2014. Rosewater was filmed in Jordan, with footage from Iran, between June and mid-August 2013.

Gael García Bernal as Maziar Bahari, a journalist who was interrogated and tortured over 118 days in Iran.

īahari is usually blindfolded while being interrogated, and his interrogator's sole distinguishing feature is that he smells of rosewater. While his pregnant fiancée waits for him, Bahari spends 118 days at Evin Prison being brutally interrogated. In 2009, London-based Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained in Iran after he reports on violence against protesters of the country's presidential election, as well as giving a satirical interview with Jason Jones of The Daily Show. The film received generally positive reviews for Bernal's performance, Stewart's direction, and its timely themes, but was criticized for its screenplay.

The film was released in theaters on November 14, 2014. Due to the content of the film, Stewart has been accused by Iran's state TV of being funded by Zionists and working with the CIA. It recounts Bahari's 2009 imprisonment by Iran, connected to an interview he participated in on The Daily Show that same year Iranian authorities presented the interview as evidence that he was in communication with an American spy. Jemisin, William Gibson, and Ann Leckie.Rosewater is a 2014 American political drama film written, directed and produced by Jon Stewart, based on the memoir Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy. Tade Thompson's innovative, genre-bending, Afrofuturist series, the Wormwood Trilogy, is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. The fugitive known as Bicycle Girl, Kaaro, and his former handler Femi may be humanity's last line of defense. Operating across spacetime, the xenosphere, and international borders, it is up to a small group of hackers and criminals to prevent the extra-terrestrial advance. And the city's alien inhabitants are threatening mass murder for their own sinister ends. Nigeria isn't willing to let Rosewater go without a fight. The Mayor finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him. Life in the newly independent city-state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting. The Rosewater Redemption concludes the award-winning, cutting edge Wormwood trilogy, set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging new voices.

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