A Special Screening for a documentary spotlighting the situation. With Rehearsals for a Revolution, actress and director Pegah Ahangarani weaves intimacy and community in her first feature film which follows her loved ones and the events of the last forty years. Five portraits of loved ones, five experiences of resistance. In a film made up of archival footage that’s both beautiful and intense, Pegah Ahangarani retraces forty years of disruption, strikes, protests and suppression up to the current war.
She stylistically tells this story in separate chapters, each marked by a different character (her father and her literature teacher for example), with a unique visual style (family archives in Super 8, YouTube videos, animations, voice recordings). Each one of her personal experiences echoes the collective fate of the Iranian people, the series of events creating the feeling of a cycle of misfortune.
