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Screening Series

Rehearsals for a Revolution [Los Angeles Screening]

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 PT

9500 Culver Blvd, Culver City CA 90232
  • Pegah Ahangarani, Director
  • Manuel Betancourt, Moderator
Still from 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 with Director Pegah Ahangarani, and moderated by Documentary magazine Interim Editor Manuel Betancourt, followed by a gathering in the lobby.

Screening Event Details: 

Los Angeles, September 18, 2026, 7:30 PM PT, seating is limited and first-come, first-served. For AMPAS, Television Academy, and Guild members, RSVP by emailing screenings@documentary.org 

Additionally, available in New York on September 24 and virtually available to all IDA members on September 28. To learn more about the New York 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: 9500 Culver Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232

Parking: The Culver Theater provides 2-hour parking validation to any of the following Culver City lots. In addition, the city provides one hour free. Parking is available from 8:00 AM to 2:00 AM, Monday through Friday, and from 10:00 AM to 2:00 AM on Saturday and Sunday.

  • 9099 Washington Blvd.
  • 3846 Cardiff Ave.
  • 3844 Watseka Ave.

Electric vehicle charging stations are available in the following lot.

  • 9099 Washington Blvd. – 3 charging stations

Accessibility

  • Service animals are allowed.
  • Drop-off point – the closest drop-off area is down the alleyway adjacent to the theater (corner of Van Buren and A St.)
  • Accessibility Parking – the parking garages we validate for have disabled parking. The closest parking would be street parking behind the theater or parking at the Culver steps; however, the theater does not validate parking for these lots.
  • Wheelchair space. There are wheelchair spaces in the auditoriums.
  • Closed Captioning Devices and Headphones for people who are hard of hearing, but this functionality only works with films that are encoded with it. 
  • Please get in touch with access@documentary.orgorg for additional requests or questions. 
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.