In the wake of winning the top documentary prize at Cannes, director Pegah Ahangarani‘s Rehearsals for a Revolution has been scooped up by Sony Pictures Classics.
SPC took rights in North America, Latin America, Asia (sans Japan), New Zealand, Turkey Portugal, and global airlines. The pic about decades of political repression in Iran won the L’Oeil d’or Prize today, which is the fest’s top award for docs.
The pic premiered in the Special Screenings section, and is a deeply personal debut feature from Ahangarani.
Through five portraits of relatives and mentors, five expressions of resistance,
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