People Next Door 2021 / Capharnaüm / Lebanon, France, USA 2018
Twelve-year-old Zain, who is sent to a juvenile prison for a violent crime, decides to sue his parents for having given him life. Shot from a child’s perspective, Nadine Labaki’s film takes an uncompromising look at the poorest stratum of Lebanese society, where a child’s outlook for a better future is rarely encouraging.
Twelve-year-old Zain, who is sent to a juvenile prison for a violent crime, decides to sue his parents for having given him life. In her award-winning third feature film, Nadine Labaki uses a child’s perspective to present an uncompromising testimony of the poorest social stratum and the desire to defy one’s fate. Filled with emotion and the occasional snatches of humor, Capernaum is above all an authentic story of the injustices and fatalism of Lebanese society, where a poor child’s outlook for a better future is rarely promising.
Natalia Kozáková
126 min / Color, DCP
Director Nadine Labaki
/ Screenplay Nadine Labaki, Khaled Mouzanar
/ Dir. of Photography Christopher Aoun
/ Music Khaled Mouzanar
/ Editor Konstantin Bock
/ Art Director Hussein Baydoun
/ Producer Khaled Mouzanar
/ Production Mooz Films Production
/ Cast Kawthar Al Haddad, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Nadine Labaki, Zain Al Rafeea
/ Sales GoodFellas
/ Distributor Film Europe s.r.o.
www: http://www.capharnaumfilm.com/
Nadine Labaki (1974, Beirut). Selected filmography: Caramel (Sukkar Banat, 2007), Where Do We Go Now? (Et maintenant on va où?, 2011), Capernaum (Capharnaüm, 2018).
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