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Capernaum

Cast

Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shifera, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawsar Al Haddad View All

Crew

Nadine Labaki (Director), Nadine Labaki (Writer), Jihad Hojeily (Writer), Georges Khabbaz (Writer) View All

Release: Oct. 6th, 2018

Runtime: 2 hours, 6 minutes

Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.

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Takoma11
After a particularly nasty fight over his parents' intent to sell Sahar to their landlord, Zain strikes out on his own where he meets Ethiopian immigrant Rahil (Yordanos Shiferaw), who agrees to take Zain in in exchange for Zain babysitting her child Yonas (Boluwatife Treasure Bankole) while she wor....

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