Movie
Rehearsals for a Revolution
2026 · 101 min
A quietly absorbing archival memoir that weaves home movies and protest footage into a personal, decades-spanning reflection on a country and its hopes.
- Directed by
- Pegah Ahangarani
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Pegah Ahangarani, Jamshid Ahangarani, Manijeh Hekmat
- Overview
- 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.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Memory, politics, family, isolation
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Pegah Ahangarani
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Pegah Ahangarani, Jamshid Ahangarani, Manijeh Hekmat
