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'Rehearsals for a Revolution' Named UK Submission for 2027 International Oscar Race

Jonah VillalbaPublished 3m ago2 min readBased on 1 source
'Rehearsals for a Revolution' Named UK Submission for 2027 International Oscar Race
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Pegah Ahangarani's documentary Rehearsals for a Revolution is the UK's submission in the 2027 International Feature Film Oscar race, according to Deadline, published on 11 November 2026.

The International Feature Film category is the Academy Awards prize for films made outside the United States, and each country picks one film to put forward. The UK's choice now sits among the national entries competing for a nomination.

The film has already collected a run of festival honours. It premiered at Cannes and won the L'Oeil d'or, the prize for the festival's top documentary. It also took best documentary at the Woodstock Film Festival in New York and the Montclair Film Festival in New Jersey.

Awards bodies have noticed it too. Rehearsals for a Revolution made the shortlist for best nonfiction feature at the IDA Documentary Awards, and it was named to the Winners Circle at DOC NYC.

The documentary took three years of editing to reach its final form, Deadline reports. Its story turns on Ahangarani's own family. Her father initially supported the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and the film explores that history.

Ahangarani has been talking about the project in public. She joined Deadline's Doc Talk podcast to discuss it. The show is hosted by John Ridley and Matt Carey and is produced by Deadline and Ridley's Nō Studios.

For readers new to awards season, the path is a long one. National submissions are shortlisted by the Academy before any nominations are announced, so the UK entry has a stretch of voting and screenings ahead before anything is decided. Festival prizes like these often help a film gain attention from the people who vote and from the buyers who decide which cinemas and streaming services show it.

Ahangarani's documentary began its life on the festival circuit, the marketplace where films are shown to critics, programmers and distributors before most audiences ever see them. Its next stops will show whether that circuit leads to a wider release.

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