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Capernaum

2018 2h 6m
Drama
MOVIEVIBE Rating
8.1/10
2,031 reviews
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Capernaum

After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.

"It takes courage to hope."

Top Billed Cast

Zain Al Rafeea
Zain Al Rafeea
Zain
Yordanos Shifera
Yordanos Shifera
Rahil
Boluwatife Treasure Bankole
Boluwatife Treasure Bankole
Yonas
Kawsar Al Haddad
Kawsar Al Haddad
Souad
Fadi Kamel Yousef
Fadi Kamel Yousef
Selim
Cedra Izzam
Cedra Izzam
Sahar
Alaa Chouchnieh
Alaa Chouchnieh
Aspro
Elias Khoury
Elias Khoury
The Judge

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

S Stephen Campbell Verified TMDB Critic
2019-07-23

**_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. After seeing these kids many times, when they started to have a trusting relationship with me, I used to ask them, "are you happy to be alive?" Ninety-nine percent of the kids answered "no". They told me: "I'm not happy to be here." "Why am I here when there'...

C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic
2025-09-19

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! He lucks out a little in that he quickly encounters “Rahil” (Yordanos Shiferaw) who is herself a refugee from Ethiopia and who needs some help looking after her baby “Yonas”. She offers him a place to sleep and some food and he babysits, but when she ...