Capharnaüm

Capharnaüm

Il faut du courage pour espérer.

2018 • 126 min • Drama

Our family guide

Best from age 14
91
Movie Knight Score
2012 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 2 · 51%
  • 82 Audience · 2010 · 49%

Un garçon de 12 ans à Beyrouth poursuit ses parents pour négligence, racontant son histoire depuis un centre de détention pour mineurs. Le film suit sa vie difficile dans les rues, y compris son lien avec une immigrante sans papiers et son bébé, et sa lutte pour la survie dans un monde qui offre peu d'aide.

Violence & peril
6/10
Language
3/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
3/10
Romance & sensuality
1/10
Scary moments
6/10

Heads up

  • Les enfants subissent des difficultés et une négligence importantes.
  • Décrit les dures réalités de la pauvreté et de la survie.
  • Contient des scènes émotionnellement intenses et bouleversantes.
  • Un jeune garçon est montré en train de fumer des cigarettes.

What it models well

  • Résilience face à l'adversité
  • Compassion pour autrui
  • Justice et droits humains

Talk about it after

  • Les défis auxquels sont confrontés les enfants vivant dans la pauvreté et des environnements instables.
  • Les responsabilités des parents envers leurs enfants.
  • L'importance des droits légaux et de la défense des intérêts, en particulier pour les plus vulnérables.
  • Le problème mondial de l'apatridie et des individus sans papiers.

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Top billed cast

Director: Nadine Labaki • Crew: Nadine Labaki, Jihad Hojeily, Georges Khabbaz, Michelle Keserwany, Khaled Mouzanar

Trailers & clips

Capernaum - On DVD, Blu-ray & Digital - 29 July

CAPERNAUM: Audience Reactions

Inside Picturehouse Special

CAPERNAUM With Joana Vicente

How director Nadine Labaki cast CAPERNAUM’s young lead | TIFF 2019

Q&A with CAPERNAUM Filmmaker Nadine Labaki

Official UK Trailer

Official US Trailer 2

Reviewer notes

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

There’s something distinctly Dickensian about the urchin style of life lived by “Zain” (Zain Al-Rafeea) on the modern-day streets of Lebanon. He has to use his wits and guile, his charm and his youth to scrape a living after he ran away from his parents. He did this because they gave his beloved eleven-year-old sister to be married!…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

**_I wouldn't call it entertaining per se, but it's certainly provocative_** >_I saw kids who are so neglected, so abused that there's nothing anymore in their eyes. These children don't laugh, don't cry, and don't play. If you put a toy in front of them, they don't touch it. They are just numb. There's no more childhood in their eyes.…

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Details

TMDB audience
8.2/10 (2,010)
Status
Released
Budget
$4,000,000
Box office
$64,978,931

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