Bosta (2005)

Fifteen years after a traumatic explosion in his native Beirut, Kamal Maf'ouss returns from France, where he was nationalized and become a composer-choreographer. He reassembles youth ... See full summary »

Director:

Philippe Aractingi

Writer:

Philippe Aractingi

Stars:

Rodney El Haddad, Nadine Labaki, Nada Abou Farhat

Cast

Credited cast:
Rodney El Haddad	...	Kamal Maf'ouss
Nadine Labaki	...	Alia
Nada Abou Farhat	...	Vola
Liliane Nemri	...	Arzeh
Omar Rajeh	...	Omar
Mounir Malaeb	...	Toufic
Bshara Atallah	...	Khalil
Raya Meddine	...	Isabelle
Joelle Rizk	...	Katia
Mahfouz Barakat	...	William Maswani
Mahmoud Mabsout	...	Mr. Naim
Bader Haddad	...	Alia's Mother
Youssef Emalhoub	...	Alia's Father
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Khaled Abdallah
Rouwelda Attieh

Storyline

Fifteen years after a traumatic explosion in his native Beirut, Kamal Maf'ouss returns from France, where he was nationalized and become a composer-choreographer. He reassembles youth friends from his late pa's multicultural school. They pimp a decommissioned school bus to tour the country in preparation of Lebanon's annual festival of the choral dance-song genre Debka. Opinions clash on their modern, cosmopolitan version of a traditional genre, even among their friends and family, while other personal problems complicate matters further.

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Plot Keywords:

live tv | explosion | dance contest | ruins | bomb | 

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Genres:

Musical | War

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site Zelig Films [fr]

Country:

Lebanon

Language:

Arabic

Release Date:

15 March 2006 (United Arab Emirates)

Also Known As:

Bosta l'autobus

Filming Locations:

Lebanon

Box Office

Budget:

$800,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fantascope Production

Technical Specs

Runtime:

142 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Writer/director Philippe Aractingi appears in the movie as one of the judges in the dance contest.

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Connections

Featured in Smagsdommerne: Episode #8.3 (2008)

User Reviews

Changed my view!!!

I'm Canadian Lebanese, my auntie brought me this film from Lebanon as a present telling me it's a hit in Lebanon... at first i thought that it was another low-budget movie with bad actors and didn't really want to watch it...But then having nothing to do, i gave it a try and it changed my whole view about Lebanese movies: the direction was great(same for the camera shots) the quality of the image was comparable to a western movie, the actors did a big effort, the story and dialogs were excellent... the movie also deals with lots of Lebanese every day troubles and it makes the whole religious segregation between Lebanese just not worthy and ridiculous(i see a lot of those things when i go to Leb every summer) the movie also opened my eyes on what Lebanese can achieve...