Capernaum

Capernaum
  • Release date: 20 Sep 2018
  • Release year: 2018
  • Runtime: 126 minutes
  • Country: Lebanon, United States, France, Cyprus, Qatar, United Kingdom
  • Keywords: street child, poverty, 12 year old, prison, child marriage, baby, 11 year old, breast feeding, title directed by female, f rated
Plot:
With his family grappling with extreme poverty, forever indebted to their ruthless landlord, the sad twelve-year-old boy, Zain, is forced to fend for himself in the squalid and overcrowded slums of Beirut. Unable to save his eleven-year-old sister, Sahar, from an uneasy arrangement, Zain will soon find himself all alone in a faceless city, ending up at a small amusement park to befriend another lost soul: the Ethiopian cleaner and mother of one, Rahil. But, in this grim and hostile world, there is no room for dreamers--and as a horrifying discovery is the last straw--a rabid desire for retribution possesses Zain and his blood-thirsty knife demands justice. Who is to blame when love becomes hate, and life turns into an unendurable torment?
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