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Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Cannes’ Documentary Prizewinner ‘Rehearsals for a Revolution’
May 22, 2026 5:17am PT Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Cannes’ Documentary Prizewinner ‘Rehearsals for a Revolution’

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Leo Barraclough

International Features Editor

LeoBarraclough See All Rehearsals for a Revolution The Party Film Sales

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights in North and Latin America, Asia (except Japan), New Zealand, Turkey, Portugal and worldwide airlines to “Rehearsals for a Revolution,” which won the best documentary prize at Cannes Film Festival, L’Oeil d’Or.

The film, which premiered in the Special Screenings section, is the deeply personal debut feature from Pegah Ahangarani.

Ahangarani sketches her life story through five portraits of relatives and mentors. 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.

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