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A Bahraini Tale

حكاية بحرينية

2006

Set against the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, this intimate epic follows a middle-class Bahraini family whose private hopes and heartbreaks mirror the wider Arab world's faith in Gamal Abdel Nasser. A tender portrait of a nation and a moment.

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Bassam Al-Thawadi’s locally produced family drama is one of the foundational features of Bahraini cinema.

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