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Screening Series

Rehearsals for a Revolution [On-Demand]

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  • Pegah Ahangarani, Director
  • Manuel Betancourt, Moderator
Documentary Screening Series 2026 on demand

Rehearsals for a Revolution, Sony Pictures Classics, Directed by Pegah Ahangarani. Produced by Kaveh Farna, Adrià Monés, Parnian Farnam, Pegah Ahangarani, and Arash Ashtiani. Edited by Arash Ashtiani. Executive produced by Enric Bach and Sergi Moreno. Still images provided by Sony Pictures Classics

About the Screening

Presented by the IDA Documentary Screening Series and Sony Pictures Classics, the screening invites members to a special virtual screening and Q&A of Rehearsals for a Revolution exclusively for IDA members, the Academy, and the Guild. Q&A conversation with Director Pegah Ahangarani, moderated by Documentary magazine Interim Editor Manuel Betancourt, followed by virtual credits.

About the Film:

Through five portraits of relatives and mentors, five expressions of resistance, Pegah Ahangarani sketches her life story. Drawing from personal archives, home videos, street protests footage, newspapers, and recorded voices, she retraces more than 40 years of Iran’s history. From the early days of 1979, until the war that began in 2026, she pieces together intimate and collective memories, forming the portrait of a country shaped by political repression and in constant hope for a revolution.

Virtual:

  • Click on the virtual hyperlink button directing you to our virtual IDA event platform 
  • Sign in to your myIDA membership at the pop-up 
  • Once signed in, you may add an RSVP ticket to your cart
  • Check out and add the name to the ticket
  • If you are an AMPAS or Guild Member be sure to sign-in to your own Eevntive account for unlocked window. 
     

For assistance and support for in-person or virtual screenings, please email screenings@documentary.org 

Run Time: 98 minutes

Event Participants

    Pegah Ahangarani

    Pegah Ahangarani

    Born in Iran in 1984 and currently based in London, Pegah Ahangarani is an award-winning Iranian filmmaker and actress. She began her acting career at the age of seven in the film The Singer Cat by Kambuzia Partovi (1991). Following her first leading role in The Girl in the Sneakers by Rasoul Sadrameli (1999), she has appeared in more than 40 films to date. She expanded her work into documentary filmmaking alongside her acting. Her short documentaries I Am Trying To Remember (2021), My Father (2023), and As I Lay Dying (2025) have been selected in major international festivals including Hot Docs, Busan, the IDA Documentary Awards, Melbourne, among others, and won awards at festivals such as Dokufest, Busan, IDFA, Short Focus London Film Festival. Pegah Ahangarani also directed two TV documentaries: Child Soldier (BBC World, 2024) and Taraneh (BBC World, 2025). Rehearsals For A Revolution is her first feature documentary and she is currently developing her next film.

    Manuel Betancourt headshot

    Manuel Betancourt

    Manuel Betancourt is the Assistant Editor of Documentary. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Variety and The AV Club, among others.