''Bosta'' (

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: ''The Autobus''

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: ''Bosta'' — بوسطة) is a 2005 Lebanese

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by the director

Philippe Aractingi Philippe Aractingi (born 1964, Beirut, Lebanon) is a film director and producer. He was born in Beirut, Aractingi is Franco- Lebanese. Early life At the age of 8, his father gave him his first camera. He lived on the demarcation line, at the hea ...

. Bosta is a story of young Lebanese artists who meet again, after being separated, and tour different cities of

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in an old bus, performing a techno version of the

dabkeh ''Dabke'' ( ar, دبكة also spelled ''dabka'', ''dubki'', ''dabkeh'', plural ''dabkaat'') is a Levantine Arab folk dance. Dabke combines circle dance and line dancing and is widely performed at weddings and other joyous occasions. The line f ...

that shocks conservatives, but moves forward towards the future.

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and

Martin Russell Martin Russell is an English recording engineer, record producer, composer, and musician. He has been a core member of the music group Afro Celt Sound System since the recording of the first album '' Volume 1: Sound Magic'' in mid-1995, and has ...

from the group,

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composed original music for the

(dance) sequences and composed the film's underscore respectively. Quoting from the official site:

''Bosta'' is a road musical that takes the audience on a wonderful journey across various Lebanese regions... a journey accompanied by a groundbreaking soundtrack and, of course, this truly pioneering dance, the electro-dabkeh.

''Bosta'' was the best selling film in Lebanon in 2006. The movie was submitted as the official Lebanese entry in the 79th Academy Awards (Oscars) in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

References

External links

Official website
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Trailer of the movieAn edited suite of music from Martin Russell's underscore (streaming audio).

Dana Trometer Editing Website
2005 films Lebanese war drama films 2000s Arabic-language films 2000s musical films {{Musical-film-stub