Film · Tunisia

Bastardo

Directed by Néjib Belkadhi · Arabic · 2013 · 106 min

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.