Cine Club...

Every Thursday at 7:30 p.m., the Alliance offers you the best of the French Cinema, if you love French films d’auteurs, award winning movies, or box office successes, come to our auditorium, entrance is free

1st and 3rd Thursday at the Alliance Française Auditorium

2nd and 4th Tursday at the Centre Culturel Franco-Bahreïnien La Maison Jamsheer (Muharraq)

Thursday 5 January 2012
Je suis né d'une cigogne
(France, Germany, 2010)
Director: Tony Gatlif
Cast : Romain Duris, Rona Hartner, Ouassini Embarek, Christine Pignet, Marc Nouyrigat.
Otto, unemployed , sells copies of "Réverbère". Louna, hairdresser, lives at an old lady's harassed by the bailiffs. Together, they decide to leave off everything. Accompanied by Ali, a young immigrant absconder and intellectual, they steal a car and leave at random roads. A stork with a wounded wing, found by the roadside, is going to give a direction to their escape...


Alliance Française (Isa Town) 19h30
En français, sous titres anglais

Thursday 12 January 2012
Des filles en noir
(France, 2010)
Director:Jean-Paul Civeyrac
Cast:Léa Tissier, Elise Lhomeau, Elise Caron, Isabelle Sadoyan, Roger Jendly
Noémie and Priscilla, two teenage girls from working class backgrounds, cultivate the same violence, the same contempt of the world. They are a source of serious concern for family and friends, who sense them capable of going to extremes.

Centre Culturel Franco-Bahreïnien La Maison Jamsheer 7:30pm
In French with English subtitles

Thursday 19 January 2012
Des filles en noir
(France, 2010)
Director:Jean-Paul Civeyrac
Cast:Léa Tissier, Elise Lhomeau, Elise Caron, Isabelle Sadoyan, Roger Jendly
Noémie and Priscilla, two teenage girls from working class backgrounds, cultivate the same violence, the same contempt of the world. They are a source of serious concern for family and friends, who sense them capable of going to extremes.

Alliance Française (Isa Town) 7:30pm
In French with English subtitles

Thursday 26 January 2012
Je suis né d'une cigogne
(France, Germany, 2010)
Director: Tony Gatlif
Cast : Romain Duris, Rona Hartner, Ouassini Embarek, Christine Pignet, Marc Nouyrigat.
Otto, unemployed , sells copies of "Réverbère". Louna, hairdresser, lives at an old lady's harassed by the bailiffs. Together, they decide to leave off everything. Accompanied by Ali, a young immigrant absconder and intellectual, they steal a car and leave at random roads. A stork with a wounded wing, found by the roadside, is going to give a direction to their escape...
Centre Culturel Franco-Bahreïnien La Maison Jamsheer 7:30pm
In French with English subtitles

Thursday 9 February 2012
Adieu Gary
Directed by Nassim Amaouche - France - 2009 - 1h15min
Cast Jean-Pierre Bacri, Dominique Reymond, Yasmine Belmadi, Mhamed Arezki, Sabrina Ouazani

In the middle of nowhere, a workers' housing area emptied of its population since a few years already. Nevertheless, certain inhabitants decided to stay there. Among them is Francis, who continues to maintain the machine on which he worked all his life; Samir, his son, who comes back from a long absence; but also Maria and her son José, who wants to believe that his father is Gary Cooper...
In French with English subtitles

Centre culturel franco-bahreïnien La Maison Jamsheer
7:30pm

Thursday 16 February 2012
Adieu Gary
Directed by Nassim Amaouche - France - 2009 - 1h15min
Cast Jean-Pierre Bacri, Dominique Reymond, Yasmine Belmadi, Mhamed Arezki, Sabrina Ouazani

In the middle of nowhere, a workers' housing area emptied of its population since a few years already. Nevertheless, certain inhabitants decided to stay there. Among them is Francis, who continues to maintain the machine on which he worked all his life; Samir, his son, who comes back from a long absence; but also Maria and her son José, who wants to believe that his father is Gary Cooper...
In French with English subtitles

Alliance française Bahrain
(Isa Town)
7:30pm

Thursday 23 February 2012
Itinéraires
Directed by Christophe Otzenberger - France - 2006 - 1h40min
Cast Yann Tregouët, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriam Boyer, Hélène Vincent, Céline Cuignet

Released from judicial care, Thierry Chartier, 18, is given a chance to start over again. He tries to go back to a normal life, but the young man, the witness of a murder, is soon appointed as culprit. Run away becomes his only horizon and the underground his everyday life. The first movie of fiction, very strong, of a renowned and committed documentary maker (" The Conquest of Clichy ").
In French with English subtitles

Centre culturel franco-bahreïnien La Maison Jamsheer
7:30pm