
Capernaum
It takes courage to hope.
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.
- 8.1
- 2018
- Released
- 2h 6m

Zain Al Rafeea
Zain
Yordanos Shifera
Rahil
Boluwatife Treasure Bankole
Yonas
Kawsar Al Haddad
Souad
Fadi Kamel Yousef
Selim
Cedra Izzam
Sahar
Alaa Chouchnieh
Aspro
Elias Khoury
The Judge
Nadine Labaki
Nadine
Nour el Husseini
Assaad
Joseph Jimbazian
Cockroach Man / Harout
Samira Chalhoub
Daad
Farah Hasno
Maysoun











Released
ar
$4,000,000.00
$64,978,931.00
- #child abuse
- #slum
- #refugee
- #neglect
- #child bride
- #lawsuit
- #undocumented immigrant
- #poverty
- #life in the slums
- #slum dwellers
Reviews

There’s something distinctly Dickensian about the urchin style of life lived by “Zain” (Zain Al-Rafeea) on the modern-day streets of Lebanon. He has to use his wits and guile, his charm and his youth to scrape a living after he ran away from his parents. He did this because they gave his beloved eleven-year-old sister to be married! He lucks out a little in that he quickly encounters “Rahil” (Yord

**_I wouldn't call it entertaining per se, but it's certainly provocative_** >_I saw kids who are so neglected, so abused that there's nothing anymore in their eyes. These children don't laugh, don't cry, and don't play. If you put a toy in front of them, they don't touch it. They are just numb. There's no more childhood in their eyes. After seeing these kids many times, when they started to ha











