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Capernaum
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2018 film directed by Nadine Labaki
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Capernaum is a 2018 Lebanese drama film directed and written by Nadine Labaki. The cast includes Nadine Labaki and Zain Al Rafeea, with music composed by Khaled Mouzanar. The film is in Arabic and set in Lebanon. It was produced by Boo Pictures, Mooz Films, Les Films des Tournelles, Open City Films, and KNM, with countries of origin listed as France, Lebanon, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. Sony Pictures Classics distributed the film, which has a runtime of 126 minutes.
The film premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Its release dates include September 20, 2018, and various dates in early 2019. The film has a budget of 4,000,000 and generated revenue of 64,978,931. It is available in video on demand format. The tagline for the film is "It takes courage to hope."
Review scores for the film include 8.4/10 on IMDb, 8.14 on TMDb, 7.9/10, 75/100, and 90%. The film has been assessed against the Bechdel test.
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Film · TMDB
8.1After 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.
Cast
- Zain Al Rafeea as Zain
- Yordanos Shifera as Rahil
- Boluwatife Treasure Bankole as Yonas
- Kawsar Al Haddad as Souad
- Fadi Kamel Yousef as Selim
- Cedra Izzam as Sahar
Themes
- child abuse
- slum
- refugee
- neglect
- child bride
- lawsuit
- undocumented immigrant
- poverty
- life in the slums
- slum dwellers
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Key facts
- Arabic
- كفرناحوم
- Directed by
- Nadine Labaki
- Screenplay by
- Nadine Labaki Jihad Hojaily Michelle Keserwany
- Story by
- Georges Khabbaz Nadine Labaki Michelle Keserwany Jihad Hojaily Khaled Mouzanar
- Produced by
- Khaled Mouzanar Michel Merkt
- Starring
- Zain Al Rafeea Yordanos Shiferaw Boluwatife Treasure Bankole Kawthar Al Haddad Fadi Kamel Youssef Nour el Husseini Alaa Chouchnieh Cedra Izam Nadine Labaki Joseph Jimbazian Farah Hasno
- Cinematography
- Christopher Aoun
- Edited by
- Konstantin Bock Laure Gardette
- Music by
- Khaled Mouzanar
- Production company
- Mooz Films
- Distributed by
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Release dates
- 17 May 2018 ( 2018-05-17 ) ( Cannes ) 20 September 2018 ( 2018-09-20 ) (Lebanon)
- Running time
- 126 minutes
- Country
- Lebanon
- Language
- Levantine Arabic
- Budget
- $4 million
- Box office
- $68.6 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Participant in
- 2018 Cannes Film Festival
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Lebanon
- Original language
- Arabic
- Director
- Nadine Labaki
- Composer
- Khaled Mouzanar
- Narrative location
- Lebanon
- Duration
- 126
- FilmAffinity ID
- 867213
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- sonyclassics.com/capernaum
- Image
- Cannes 2018 25.jpg
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- title
- كفرناحوم
- publication date
- 2018-05-17
- Commons category
- Capernaum (film)
- social media followers
- 2746
- review score
- 4.2/5
- assessment
- Bechdel test
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Encyclopedic overview
Capernaum (Arabic: كفرناحوم, romanized: Kafr nāħūm) is a 2018 Lebanese drama film directed by Nadine Labaki and produced by Khaled Mouzanar. The screenplay was written by Labaki, Jihad Hojaily and Michelle Keserwany from a story by Labaki, Hojaily, Keserwany, Georges Khabbaz and Khaled Mouzanar. The film stars Syrian refugee child actor Zain Al Rafeea as Zain El Hajj, a 12-year-old living in the slums of Beirut. Capernaum is told in flashback format, focusing on Zain's life, including his encounter with an Ethiopian immigrant Rahil and her infant son Yonas, and leading up to his attempt to sue his parents for child neglect.
The film debuted at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or, and won the Jury Prize. Capernaum received a 15-minute standing ovation following its premiere at Cannes on 17 May 2018. Sony Pictures Classics, which had previously distributed Labaki's Where Do We Go Now?, bought North and Latin American and South African distribution rights to the film, while Wild Bunch retained the international rights. It received a wider release on 20 September 2018.
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