WRITER
CAPHARNAÜM (2019)
Starring Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Nadine Labaki, Kawthar Al Haddad, Fadi Kamel Youssef, Nour El Husseini and Cedra Izam. Directed by Nadine Labaki.
Twelve-year-old Zain stands in a Beirut court and declares that he wants to sue his parents “for giving [him] life”. A shocking and outlandish statement, but as Labaki’s film traces through Zain’s experiences – born in a family overwhelmed by too many children, slum neighbourhoods, a sister sold into marriage, deprivation and roaming the streets as the sole caretaker of an abandoned toddler – his grievances against the world and those who brought him into it reverberate with righteous fury.
Starring Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Nadine Labaki, Kawthar Al Haddad, Fadi Kamel Youssef, Nour El Husseini and Cedra Izam. Directed by Nadine Labaki.
Twelve-year-old Zain stands in a Beirut court and declares that he wants to sue his parents “for giving [him] life”. A shocking and outlandish statement, but as Labaki’s film traces through Zain’s experiences – born in a family overwhelmed by too many children, slum neighbourhoods, a sister sold into marriage, deprivation and roaming the streets as the sole caretaker of an abandoned toddler – his grievances against the world and those who brought him into it reverberate with righteous fury.
