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Screening Series

Rehearsals for a Revolution [New York Screening]

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Sony Studios Screening Room, 25 Madison Avenue, 27th floor, New York NY 10010
  • Pegah Ahangarani, Director
still image, Rehearsals for a Revolution

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 screening and Q&A of Rehearsals for a Revolution exclusively for IDA members, the Academy, and the Guild. Q&A conversation moderated by documentary magazine, followed by a reception. 

Screening Event Details: 

New York, September 24, 2026, 6:00 PM PT, seating is very limited and first-come, first-served. For AMPAS, Television Academy, and Guild members, RSVP by emailing screenings@documentary.org 

Additionally, available in Los Angeles on September 18 and virtually available to all IDA members on September 28. To learn more about the Los Angeles screening, please follow here. An IDA or AMPAS member and not in Los Angeles or New York? No problem, unlock a special virtual on-demand presentation with Q&A here.

 

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.

 

Venue & Accessibility:  

Address: 25 Madison Ave, Fl 27, New York, NY, 10010

The Sony Pictures Screening Room in New York is located on the 27th floor at 25 Madison Avenue

Accessibility

Because this is a private screening room, specific requests or questions for listening devices, companion seating, or other accommodations should be coordinated with Sony at Caroline_morris@spe.sony.com or IDA at access@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.