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Capernaum

8.1/ 10

TMDB Rating

1,950

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2018

Release Year

126 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

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.

Keywords

child abuse
slum
refugee
neglect
child bride
lawsuit
undocumented immigrant
poverty
life in the slums
slum dwellers

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Reviews(2)

7.5avg rating
Stephen Campbell

Stephen Campbell

@Bertaut

July 23, 2019

8
8/10

**_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.

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

September 19, 2025

7
7/10

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 ele

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