Actor-director Nadine Labaki explores the poorest slums of Lebanon through the eyes of a child in Cannes competition entry 'Capharnaum.' By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic Labaki and casting ...

Lebanon has selected 'Capharnaum,' directed by Nadine Labaki, as its entry for best foreign-language film consideration at the Oscars. By Vladimir Kozlov Lebanon has selected Capharnaum as its ...

Tackling its issues with heart and intelligence, Labaki's child-endangerment tale is a splendid addition to the ranks of great guttersnipe dramas. There’s one liability however, and that’s the title.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Zain has every reason to be angry. He is only 12 – at least, that is his parents' best estimate – but already a criminal. He has spent ...

Lebanese director and actress Nadine Labaki took home the Cannes jury award for reality Drama “Capharnaum” at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. The film is set in the slums of Beirut, and follows the ...

Lebanese film Capharnaum by award winning director Nadine Labaki is the only Arab film so far announced in the lineup of the annual Toronto Film festival, which opens on 6 September. In it’s North ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Capharnaum is a Dickensian tale updated to the slums of modern-day Beirut with 12-year-old Zain as its Oliver Twist. Zain Al Rafeea, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Capernaum” is billed as a “politically-charged fable” that follows a child who sues his own family. The movie is notable for ...

Director Nadine Labaki won the jury prize for her film Capharnaum, the first Arab win in over a decade Lebanese director Nadine Labaki won the jury prize for her film Capharnaum at the Cannes Film ...

Capharnaum (also known as Capernaum), nominated this week for an Academy Award for best foreign film, is the story of a 12-year-old boy living in Lebanon who takes his parents to court for bringing ...

A small boy appears before a court in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. He is already doing time in a juvenile facility. Though it comes as a surprise to hear he is “probably 12 years old” - no-one ...

Zain (Zain Al Rafeea), who is serving a five-year sentence in juvie “because I stabbed a son of a bitch with a knife,” as he so eloquently puts it, was previously living a meagre life, mitigated by ...