Capernaum

Capernaum

It takes courage to hope.

Sinopse

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
Status

Released

Original Language

ar

Budget

$4,000,000.00

Revenue

$64,978,931.00

Keywords
  • #child abuse
  • #slum
  • #refugee
  • #neglect
  • #child bride
  • #lawsuit
  • #undocumented immigrant
  • #poverty
  • #life in the slums
  • #slum dwellers

Reviews

Geronimo1967
@Geronimo19673 months ago

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

Bertaut
@Bertautover 6 years ago

**_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

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