Bastardo

Larger-than-life characters populate director Nejib Belkadhi’s spellbinding combination of film noir and magic realism, which follows a downtrodden orphan — now grown but still saddled with a cruel nickname — who has a reversal of fortune and takes on the thugs who control his ghetto.

Director: Néjib Belkadhi

Cast: Ahmed Abdelmonaâm Chouayet, Lobna Noomene, Taoufik El Bahri, Chedly Arfaoui, Lasaad Ben Abdallah, Issa Harath, Latifa Gafsi, Bilel Briki

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