/capharnaüm
Lebanon/France/USA/Cyprus/Qatar
2018 M 126 mins
director: Nadine Labaki
"It's harsh and abrasive, and sometimes difficult...but Labaki has layered the film with just enough moments of kindness to break your heart."
Kevin Maher - Times (UK)
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/cast
Zain Al Rafeea - Zain
Yordanos Shiferaw - Rahil
Boluwatife Treasure Bankole - Yonas
Kawsar Al Haddad - Souad (the mother)
Fadi Yousef - Selim (the father)
Haita 'Cedra' Izzam - Sahar (the sister)
Alaa Chouchnieh - Aspro
Nadine Labaki - Nadine
Elias Khoury - the Judge
Nour El Husseini - Assaad
Filmed on location in Beirut, Lebanon and Roumieh Prison, Roumieh, Lebanon
/Nadine Labaki
director
born in 1974 Beirut, Lebanon
"I wanted to talk about the system, which in my view isn't working very well. In my research work I also thought that we could think about some alternative system to the issues of mis-treated children, immigrants, migrant workers, modern slavery, the idea of borders, a piece of paper which determines your entire life and gives you a real existence and a status - all these things that I address in the film. Without papers, people are totally excluded from the system and that's the problem with all the people in the film. "
Nadine Labaki