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Lebanese helmer Nadine Labaki's timely Oscar contender 'Capernaum' centers on a 12-year-old street kid who, after a lifetime of abuse and neglect by his parents, decides to sue them for giving him ...
Cannes Film Festival’s Jury Prize winner, “Capernaum,” is so “shocking” that its director Nadine Labaki was concerned “people will not be able to handle it.” When TheWrap sat down ...
In the Lebanese movie Capernaum (the title translates to "chaos," an apt description of the world of the film), skinny, sad-eyed Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) is 12 years old, though he's so tiny he could ...
Academy Award-nominated “Capernaum” (“Chaos”) is set in the Dickensian world of present-day childhood impoverishment in Lebanon. The film’s protagonist is Syrian refugee Zain (Zain Al ...
The kid is angry. Zain is his name, and at the start of “Capernaum” he’s suing his parents for having brought him into the world. In court, in handcuffs, in Beirut, he’s charged with ...
“Capernaum” is on Oscar’s shortlist for foreign-language film, with nominations to be unveiled Jan. 23. The Globes ceremony will be Jan. 6, and the Globes nom marks the second ever for the ...