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Bahrain's Film Festival with a different Mission

Bahrain's first film festival has no new films but it may launch a Gulf film industry

The first Bahrain Arab film festival won't be showing any new films but it may help to launch a film industry in the Gulf region. Plus, the career of Harrison Ford; Celebration, a new play by Harold Pinter; Janet Suzman's The Free State now touring Britain is a free adaptation of The Cherry Orchard set in South Africa.

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28 minutes

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project