Marking the first-ever nod for the Lebanese filmmaker and only the second for her home country, “Capernaum” director Nadine Labaki didn’t have much time to celebrate when she learned of her film’s ...

Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki’s “Capernaum” is a poverty saga with a heart-in-your-throat urgency, a grueling tale of child endangerment and youthful resilience on Beirut’s sorriest streets that ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: So just as we rely on journalists to bear witness, we often rely on film makers to bring important stories to life. The Lebanese director, Nadine Labaki’s new film, “Capernaum” ...

Nadine Labaki, the Lebanese director of last year’s “Capernaum,” has been named the president and chair of the Un Certain Regard prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the festival announced ...

Brown kids locked in cages. In America! It continues to be a shocking sight in the land of liberty and justice. Yet the current rash of xenophobia and hatred is hardly exclusive to the U.S.A. It’s ...

Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) pulls companion Yonas (Boluwatife Treasure Bankole) on a makeshift wagon in the movie Capernaum. In one of the first scenes in Capernaum, the camera flies above the slums of ...

Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) is an abrasive, unkempt boy of either 12 or 13 years old. Neither he nor his parents quite know his age for sure. His parents’ neglect is only part of the reason why Zain wants ...

Poverty is the uncredited lead character—or, perhaps, a much-indicted co-conspirator—in “Capernaum,” one of the year’s more remarkable movies and one with many ancestors: the Italian neo-realism of De ...

In the Lebanese movie Capernaum (the title translates to "chaos," an apt description of the world of the film), skinny, sad-eyed Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) is 12 years old, though he's so tiny he could ...

On November 15, the DGA Special Projects Committee Global Cinema Series screened a film from Lebanon, Director Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum. Labaki’s film tells the extraordinary story of a 12-year-old ...

The project is based on the 2018 French dramedy 'Les Invisibles.' By Mia Galuppo Senior Entertainment Reporter The Invisibles will take place at a day shelter where, according to the project’s ...