Bastardo is a 2013 Tunisian drama film written and directed by Nejib Belkadhi. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.^[2][3]

Mohsen, "the bastard", was found in a dustbin 30 years ago by his adoptive father, and has always been rejected by the residents of the rundown district where he lives. When he is fired from his job, a mobile phone company comes to install a relay tower on the roof of his modest house in exchange for a monthly stipend, Bastardo has a reversal of fortune. The aerial makes Mohsen a wealthy and respected man, to the disgruntlement of the village mobster Larnouba.

Director Belkadhi says:

"Power and corruption have been part of our lives for decades, and less than three years after the revolution, I am still wondering if we made it. Back in 2007, when I began writing the script, I had one thought in mind: my main character Bastardo shouldn’t choose power. It’s rather power that chooses him and radically changes him."^[4]

• Abdel Moneem Chouayat as Mohsen Bastardo
• Chedly Arfaoui as Larnouba
• Lobna Noomene as Bent Essengra
• Taoufik El Bahri as Khlifa
• Lassad Ben Abdallah as Khadra
• Issa Harath as Am Salah
• Latifa El Gafsi
• Ramzy Slim
• Bilel Briki

Bastardo received a grant from the Doha Film Institute in 2011.^[5] The original, uncut version of the movie was 3 hours and 20 minutes' long.^[6]