‘Capharnaum’

Syrian refugee boy is stand-out star of Cannes film festival

Zain Al Rafeea, who has been working as a delivery boy in Beirut until recently — and who has only just learned to write his name — turns in a performance in “Capernaum” that critics said would melt the hardest of hearts.
Director Nadine Labaki took six months to make the odyssey through the lives of the poorest of the poor, in the slums of the Lebanese capital, using amateur actors.

By AFP · 18 May 2018