Actor-director Nadine Labaki explores the poorest slums of Lebanon through the eyes of a child in Cannes competition entry 'Capharnaum.' By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic Labaki and casting ...

Director Nadine Labaki won the jury prize for her film Capharnaum, the first Arab win in over a decade Lebanese director Nadine Labaki won the jury prize for her film Capharnaum at the Cannes Film ...

CANNES, France (Reuters) - The actors in a film tipped for prizes at Cannes were not only amateurs plucked from the streets, they were also living lives as precarious as those of their characters, ...

Lebanon has selected 'Capharnaum,' directed by Nadine Labaki, as its entry for best foreign-language film consideration at the Oscars. By Vladimir Kozlov Lebanon has selected Capharnaum as its ...

Nadine Labaki’s “Capharnaüm” had been generating whispers and speculation since before this year’s Cannes Film Festival even began, but in recent days that buzz built towards fever pitch. There was ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Zain has every reason to be angry. He is only 12 – at least, that is his parents' best estimate – but already a criminal. He has spent ...

Capharnaum is a Dickensian tale updated to the slums of modern-day Beirut with 12-year-old Zain as its Oliver Twist. Zain Al Rafeea, right, is a beautiful child of terrifying aplomb. He's not an ...

Lebanese film Capharnaum by award winning director Nadine Labaki is the only Arab film so far announced in the lineup of the annual Toronto Film festival, which opens on 6 September. In it’s North ...

Zain (Zain Al Rafeea), who is serving a five-year sentence in juvie “because I stabbed a son of a bitch with a knife,” as he so eloquently puts it, was previously living a meagre life, mitigated by ...

A small boy appears before a court in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. He is already doing time in a juvenile facility. Though it comes as a surprise to hear he is “probably 12 years old” - no-one ...

There’s a powerful tale of child suffering and defiance buried somewhere in the melodrama of Nadine Labaki’s “Capharnaum”, a film that baffled many critics even as it drew the longest standing ovation ...

Capharnaum (also known as Capernaum), nominated this week for an Academy Award for best foreign film, is the story of a 12-year-old boy living in Lebanon who takes his parents to court for bringing ...