A HUNDRED years of cinema in Bahrain came under the spotlight at an event at the Shaikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al Khalifa Centre for Culture and Research in Muharraq.The history of cinema in Bahrain dates back to 1922 when Bahraini businessman Mahmood Al Saati imported a projector and set up a makeshift cinema in a cottage in Manama and screened silent films, according to historian Yousef Salah Al Din .