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Capernaum (2018)

09/20/2018Drama2h 6m
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It takes courage to hope.

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Zain Al Rafeea

    Zain

  2. Cast 1

    Yordanos Shifera

    Rahil

  3. Cast 1

    Boluwatife Treasure Bankole

    Yonas

  4. Cast 1

    Kawsar Al Haddad

    Souad

  5. Cast 1

    Fadi Kamel Yousef

    Selim

  6. Cast 1

    Cedra Izzam

    Sahar

  7. Cast 1

    Alaa Chouchnieh

    Aspro

  8. Elias Khoury

    The Judge

  9. Cast 1

    Nadine Labaki

    Nadine

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” (Yordanos Shiferaw) who is herself a refugee from Ethiopia and who needs some help looking after her baby “Yonas”. She offers him a place to sleep and some food and he babysits, but when she stops coming h...

Status Released

Original LanguageArabic 

Budget$4,000,000.00

Revenue $64,978,931.00

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