Director - Nadine Labaki
Script - Nadine Labaki, Jihad Hojeily, Michelle Kesrouani
Camera - Christopher Aoun
Music - Khaled Mouzanar
Cast - Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawthar Al Haddad, Fadi Kamel Youssef, Cedra Izam, Alaa Chouchnieh, Nadine Labaki
Producers - Khaled Mouzanar, Michel Merkt
Production - Boo Pictures
Zain is a 12-year-old boy in Beirut, deeply embittered by his poverty, by his parents’ failure to protect him from it and by the desperate and humiliatingly ineffective accommodations they have made to get money. They have effectively sold his beloved 11-year-old sister Samar in marriage to their landlord’s creepy son. Zain is now in Lebanon’s notorious Roumieh prison, from which he is launching a lawsuit against his parents, suing them for the fact that he has been born.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“Capharnaüm recounts the journey of 12-year-old Zain, who decides to sue his parents for having brought him into this world when they can’t raise him properly, even if only to give him love. The fight of this mistreated boy, whose parents have not lived up to their task, resonates like the scream of all those who are neglected by our system. A universal accusation seen through candid eyes…"
Nadine Labaki
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“Capharnaüm recounts the journey of 12-year-old Zain, who decides to sue his parents for having brought him into this world when they can’t raise him properly, even if only to give him love. The fight of this mistreated boy, whose parents have not lived up to their task, resonates like the scream of all those who are neglected by our system. A universal accusation seen through candid eyes…"
Nadine Labaki
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -
Academy Awards ’19 – Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film
Cannes '18 – Jury Prize, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Calgary '18 – Audience Award
Ghent '18 – Audience Award
Sarajevo '18 – Audience Award
Program
- 09.03.2019
CINEMA CITY MALL OF SOFIA - 21.00 часа - 17.03.2019
CINEMA CITY MALL OF SOFIA - 21.00 часа - 15.03.2019
CINEMA ARENA DELUX BULGARIA MALL - 21.00 часа - 19.03.2019
CINE GRAND PARK CENTER - 19.00 часа - 16.03.2019
EURO CINEMA - 17.30 часа - 18.03.2019
EURO CINEMA - 19.45 часа - 29.03.2019
DOM NA KINOTO - 16.00 часа - 09.03.2019
CULTURE CENTER “G8” - 18.30 часа - 23.03.2019
CULTURE CENTER “G8” - 20.45 часа - 20.03.2019
MCI HOUSE OF CULTURE “ISKAR” - 19.00 часа - 21.03.2019
CINEMA “VLAIKOVA“ - 18.00 часа - 22.03.2019
FORMAR HALL OF THE FORMER COMMUNIST PARTY HQ - 20.00 часа
