The Bahrain Film Festival was inaugurated last night, with screenings and workshops commencing today and lasting until Monday.
Organised by the Bahrain Cinema Club, the festival’s fifth edition features 74 movies from all over the world, including 14 Bahraini short films.
This year’s iteration is being held under the theme ‘Short Films, Great Stories’, and opened with a special screening of Hope by filmmaker Ahmed Zayani.
It was launched with a stage play that summarised the history of film in Bahrain, in the presence of Information Minister Dr Ramzan Al Noaimi and French Ambassador Eric Giraud-Telme.
Pioneering Bahraini director Bassam Al Thawadi gave an inspiring speech about how he started out in the film scene in Bahrain in the 70s, beginning as a janitor and ending up writing and directing many memorable local classics.
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