Jon Stewart’s ‘Rosewater’ Offers Up a New Trailer

Jon Stewart took time off from The Daily Show to make his directorial debut with Rosewater, and now the first audiences will have the opportunity to check out his rookie effort when the film premieres today at the Telluride Film Festival. For those not able to make it to the festival, a brand new trailer has made its way online featuring Gael García Bernal. The cast also includes Kim Bodnia, Haluk Bilginer, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Golshifteh Farahani, and Claire Foy.

Rosewater will get its theatrical release beginning on November 7, 2014.

The Plot:

Rosewater follows the Tehran-born Bahari, a broadcast journalist with Canadian citizenship. In June 2009, Bahari returned to Iran to interview Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who was the prime challenger to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As Mousavi’s supporters rose up to protest Ahmadinejad’s victory declaration hours before the polls closed, Bahari endured personal risk by sending footage of the street riots to the BBC. Bahari was arrested by police, led by a man identifying himself only as “Rosewater,” who tortured and interrogated him over the next 118 days.

With Bahari’s wife leading an international campaign to have her husband freed, and Western media outlets keeping the story alive, Iranian authorities released Bahari on $300,000 bail and the promise he would act as a spy for the government.

Rosewater New Poster and Trailer
Gael Garcia Bernal in ‘Rosewater’

-By Rebecca Murray

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