Bastardo. Genre: Drama. Director: Néjib Belkadhi. Cast: Ahmed Abdelmonaâm Chouayet, Lobna Noomene, Taoufik El Bahri, Chedly Arfaoui, Lasaad Ben Abdallah. Release Date: 2013-09-09. Runtime: 106 minutes. Rating: 7/10. 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.