UPDATED with quotes from L’Oeil d’or winner Pegah Ahangarani and jury president Mstyslav Chernov. Rehearsals for a Revolution, director Pegah Ahangarani’s film about decades of political repression in Iran, won the L’Oeil d’or Prize today, the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize for documentary. Accepting the award in the presence of Cannes Film Festival leader Thierry […]

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 […]