Rosewater (2014)

The protagonist of the film is an Iranian, Canadian journalist, Bahari (Maziar Bahari). In 2009, Bahari covered the Iranian presidential election as a correspondent for Newsweek in Iran. On June 13th, after the election commission announced the victory of Ahmadinejad (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad), supporters of his rival took to the streets, Bahari filmed the protest known as Iran's green revolution. On 21 June, he was taken from his home in Tehran and released after 118 days of imprisonment. Bahari later wrote his memoir Then They Came for Me, which was published in 2011. In the book, he describes himself being tortured and interrogated as a spy sneaking into Iran. Because he was blindfolded, he could not see the face of the interrogator, only the smell of rose perfume, Bahari called each other as "rose perfume" (rose perfume) in the book, hence the title of the film.