Rehearsals For A Revolution

During the Q&A after the screening, Pegah said something quite striking in response to a question from an audience member about the future of Iran as it stands today: “Our people are trapped in a cycle of despair and hope.” And I believe that sentence perfectly encapsulates…

Siavash

Comment ne pas descendre dans la rue pour protester et se battre pour le droit de la population après ça?  À travers des portraits intimes, des archives personnelles et des récits de résistance, ce documentaire profondément politique, mais surtout profondément humain nous…

Emilie Vizcano

I think we in the west sometimes think of events in far away countries in politically precarious situations as bullet point news items, so I appreciated how personal it was able to make the events it covered as they related to filmmaker’s life, and I found it pretty…

Rock

I thought this was quite effective. Director Pegah Ahangarani does a good job of weaving together the material in an engaging way. I appreciated how personal and intimate it felt.

Movie Guy

Ahangarani shares five stories of Iranians she loves, who give her courage to persist, to continue to resist, and to grow new love for the future. It’s a beautiful and heartbreaking piece of work. It’s unfortunate that she wasn’t able to be present for its first American…

kaylyn

چه فرق می‌کند وقتی قصه را در قالب قصه تعریف می‌کنی یا در قالب مستند؟ فرق می‌کند. یک فرق بزرگ. وجود «ادعای واقعیت» که با مستندسازی گره خورده، اما در رئالیستی‌ترین فیلم داستانی هم جایی ندارد.نگاهم به ادعای واقعیت، آرمان‌گرایانه نیست. با در نظر گرفتن این که اوصولا واقعیت امری…

KhatoonFaroughi

Very intelligently put together as the 5 chapters cover 5 decades of history of revolutions in Iran (one successful and 4 failed) as it moves through also 5 decades of visual registers shifting from super 8 film stock to computer editing, using animation, fiction, news…

Eduardo Valente

Bergen International Film Festival 2026 Dette! For en dokumentar, man kunne ikke plassert et kamera på et mer spennende sted/hånd om man kunne velge fritt i hele verden! Snakk om å være på riktig sted i riktig tid. Sitat etter hukommelsen: «Tapt revolusjon tilhører…

Thomas Sundal

À la fois un magnifique film personnel sur l’histoire de l’Iran et une déclaration d'amour à la technique du cinéma : On est directement à la table de montage avec Pegah Ahangarani, au plus près de tous les différents formats d’archives, et on la voit mettre en pause,…

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