LEBANON · 2018

Capernaum

Nadine Labaki
child abuse and neglect street children and poverty legal system and justice parental responsibility survival in urban hardship
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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.

Year2018
CountryLebanon
DirectorNadine Labaki
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