• Director(s):

    LAMORRE (STEPHANIE), GOASGUEN (MATHIEU)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE, PREMIERES LIGNES TELEVISION

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2012

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET

Since one year, a democratic insurrection has been filling the streets daily of a country where nobody goes - Bahrain, the forgotten country of the Arab Spring. This island, a small monarchy in the Persian Gulf with a population of 600,000, is closed to journalists.

To carry out the filming process, Stéphanie Lamorré remained clandestine, alongside those who are fighting for democracy, in the face of daily, violent and relentless repression.
To everybody else, Bahrain is a rich and modern country in full development. In reality, the Sunni monarchy of King Al Khalifa is a dictatorship that practices torture, arbitrary arrest and discrimination among a Shi'ite population of over 75%. The elite is Sunni. Bahrain is above all a satellite of Saudi Arabia and a Western ally. In Spring 2011, at the start of the uprising, the Saudi army sent its tanks to Bahrain to re-establish order.
Every day for a year now, men and women of all generations defy the Manama authorities to ask for more democracy. A population that is oppressed among general indifference.

2012 : Selected at IDFA Film Festival