20 Films in Bahrain first festival for the Arab cinema

Bahrain cinema club will organize the first festival for the Arab cinema in Manama between 25th - 31st of coming March in association with ministry of cabinet's affairs and information.

The festival will be held every two years will be run by the Bahraini director Bassam El-Zawawi (graduate of the high cinema institute in Egypt).

20 Films among, which are 14 films that represent Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Morocco, Algeria, Tunis and Mauritania - will participate in the festival's departments.

The opening and closing will be the Egyptian cinema as the opening will be the Romantic movie "The two lovers", while the closure will be with "words of night" which deals with corruption of authority in Egyptian.

The arbitration committee will be headed by the Bahraini critic Khalifa Shahin while the committee comprises members from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Morocco and India.