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.

Cast

Ahmed Abdelmonaâm Chouayet

Mohsen Bastardo

Lobna Noomene

Bent Essengra

Taoufik El Bahri

Khlifa

Chedly Arfaoui

Larnouba

Lasaad Ben Abdallah

Khadhra

Issa Harath

Am Salah

Latifa Gafsi

Bilel Briki

Ramzi Slim