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

Um menino de 12 anos em Beirute processa seus pais por negligência, contando sua história de um centro de detenção juvenil. O filme segue sua vida difícil nas ruas, incluindo seu laço com uma imigrante indocumentada e seu bebê, e sua luta pela sobrevivência em um mundo que oferece pouca ajuda.

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

Heads up

  • Crianças suportam dificuldades e negligência significativas.
  • Retrata as duras realidades da pobreza e da sobrevivência.
  • Apresenta cenas emocionalmente intensas e perturbadoras.
  • Um menino é mostrado fumando cigarros.

What it models well

  • Resiliência na adversidade
  • Compaixão pelos outros
  • Justiça e direitos humanos

Talk about it after

  • Os desafios enfrentados por crianças vivendo na pobreza e em ambientes instáveis.
  • As responsabilidades dos pais para com seus filhos.
  • A importância dos direitos legais e da advocacia, especialmente para os vulneráveis.
  • A questão global da apatridia e indivíduos indocumentados.

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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

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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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