The Salesman

Emad and Rana, a married couple in Tehran, are acting in a stage production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. When their apartment building begins to collapse, they move into a flat found by their fellow actor Babak, which the previous tenant had left in a hurry. One night Rana, alone at home, opens the door to an intruder she takes for her husband and is assaulted; while she struggles with the trauma and refuses to go to the police, Emad sets out to find the attacker himself. The film premiered in competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where it won Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Shahab Hosseini, and later won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.