1. A BOY'S LIFE OF CHAOS - An Interview with CAPERNAUM ...
Jan 3, 2019 · Both a beloved actress in her native Lebanon and an internationally acclaimed director, Nadine Labaki has created what is easily her finest work ...
by Steven ProkopyBoth a beloved actress in her native Lebanon and an internationally acclaimed director, Nadine Labaki has created what is easily her finest work in the powerful, gritty CAPERNAUM—the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival and recently shortlisted for a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. The movie tells the story of a young Lebanese boy named Zain (Zain al Raffea), who opens the film in court, suing his neglectful parents for giving him life with, he believes, no intention of caring for him properly. That part of the film is metaphor and social commentary, but the rest of it is sadly based on the harsh reality of the real world.Zain lives on the streets of modern Beirut, where he meets Rahil (Yordanos Shiferaw), an Ethiopian refugee, and her infant son Yonas (actually played by a baby girl named Boluwatife Treasure Bankole). When Rahil is arrested for living in the country illegally, Zain takes it upon himself to care for the baby as best he can, which is to say not very well. With its primary cast made up entirely of first-time actors, director/co-writer Labaki approached the making of the film differently than her more tightly scripted pervious efforts (CARAMEL, WHERE DO WE GO NOW?, and the RIO, I LOVE YOU segment “O Milagre”), allowing her actors to behave and respond naturally and adjusting her screenplay to their abilities and spontaneity. The result is a vibrant, lyrical and emotionally devastating work that is moving in w...
2. Capernaum review – little boy lost in an unjust world - The Guardian
Feb 20, 2019 · In Nadine Labaki's powerful drama, a Beirut child sues his parents for giving birth to him – before ending up on the street caring for a stranger's baby.
In Nadine Labaki’s powerful drama, a Beirut child sues his parents for giving birth to him – before ending up on the street caring for a stranger’s baby
3. Art to Provoke: Nadine Labaki - A Rabbit's Foot
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Over the Marrakesh Film Festival, A Rabbit's Foot examines Nadine Labaki's journey through cinema during troubled times.
4. Perspectives on 2020: Nadine Labaki on how the Beirut explosion shaped ...
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The writer, director and actress reveals how the devastating Beirut explosion pushed her back into filmmaking
5. [PDF] analysing traumatic impacts in refugee children in nadine labaki's ...
The paper titled Forced to Flee: Analysing the Traumatic Impacts in Refugee children in Nadine Labaki's. Capernaum traces the effects of trauma experienced ...
6. Capernaum review: a sharp-eyed, street-level melodrama - BFI
Dec 23, 2019 · Nadine Labaki's righteous anger about child poverty fuels this brutally honest film about Dickensian living conditions in Beirut slums.
Man hands on misery to man at an astonishing rate in Nadine Labaki’s righteously angry slum-survival melodrama. As the film opens, its furious streetwise hero, 12-year-old Zain, is in court, suing his neglectful parents for having given birth to him. The piercing child’s-eye view of his chaotic Beirut life, to which we flash back, suggests he has a case.
7. 'Back to Alexandria': A poignant film despite character flaws | Al Majalla
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There is a realistic and convincing portrayal of Egypt from a cosmopolitan cast in this 2023 release, but the struggle of the characters to make emotional progress stands out.
8. What Would They Say? The Onlooking Children of Nadine Labaki
Feb 22, 2019 · Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki sheds light on the forgotten voices in the face of abject suffering. Cathy Brennan revisits the director's first two films.
READ ME is a platform for female-led writing on film hosted by Girls on Tops. Louisa Maycock (@louisamaycock) is Commissioning Editor and Ella Kemp (@efekemp) is Contributing Editor.Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki sheds light on the forgotten voices in the face of abject suffering. Cathy Brennan revisits the director’
9. “Where Do We Go Now?” Asks Nadine Labaki | The New Yorker
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The New Directors/New Films series at MOMA opened last week with the story of a group of Muslim and Christian women in a remote village who band together to stop their hotheaded men from engulfing their community in yet another war. The film, titled “Where Do We Go Now?” and directed by Nadine Labaki, set box-office records in Lebanon since opening there in September and received a standing ovation at the festival’s première.
10. Back to Alexandria review: Nadine Labaki navigates Egypt's class ...
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Tamer Ruggli's film, showing at Cinema Akil, portrays a woman's psychological journey home to her ailing mother
11. 'Capernaum' Director Wants Her Immigration Drama to Spark Debate
Jan 6, 2019 · Lebanese helmer Nadine Labaki's timely Oscar contender 'Capernaum ... Back Please?” By Abid Rahman · James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump ...
Lebanese helmer Nadine Labaki's timely Oscar contender 'Capernaum' centers on a 12-year-old street kid who, after a lifetime of abuse and neglect by his parents, decides to sue them for giving him life.
12. Nadine Labaki talks cancel culture, restrictive regimes: “It's becoming ...
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Labaki kicked off the TIFF Visionaries strand of on-stage discussions.
13. Nadine Labaki: 'I really believe cinema can effect social change'
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The Oscar nominee talks about being a female director in Lebanon, the child poverty that inspired her latest film and the Syrian refugee crisis
14. Nadine LABAKI - Festival de Cannes
Awarded with the Jury Prize at the Festival de Cannes 2018 with her powerful film Capernaum, also nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Foreign ...
Awarded with the Jury Prize at the Festival de Cannes 2018 with her powerful film Capernaum, also nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Nadine Labaki has been weaving a story with the Festival for many years. After signing award-winning commercials and music videos, she took part in the Rési
15. Interview: Nadine Labaki Talks About Casting Non-Professional Actors ...
Oct 30, 2018 · Through Zain, we learn the anger, the hurt, these forgotten children go through. ... When we came back from Cannes, they followed his situation. I ...
Struggling and neglected souls. We walk past them. More often than not, in our helplessness, we turn a blind eye to them. In Lebanon, it's worse. The country opened its doors to refugees, but its citizen had an economic crisis of their own. Nadine Lakabi spent four years doing research for her latest film, Capernaum, working with social workers as…
16. Nadine Labaki's 'Capernaum' and the human rights discourse
Jun 14, 2024 · ... (Nadine Labaki Talks The Inspiration Behind Capernaum 2018). ... trauma of sectarian violence posed by the recent civil war. It is in ...
This article explores Nadine Labaki’s movie Capernaum and its depiction of human suffering in Lebanon, especially of children, thus placing it at the intersection of the human rights discourse and film studies. Utilising contextualised sequence analyses, it is argued that the movie uses the premise of having a boy sue his parents for giving him life, knowing their living conditions, as a metaphor and framing device by which a light is shined on the inequalities connected to a life lived in poverty. The use of differing localities, the contrast of two mothers, as well as the depiction of the kafala system’s repercussions on the individuals involved are shown as various avenues in which human rights are violated despite the characters’ best intentions. The director’s activist mindset is argued to influence this presentation in a number of ways, among them the cinematographic style that borrows from documentaries as well as its scope, which makes it suitable to being included on the film festival circuit and thus reaching a bigger audience. Contribution: This article thus contributes a novel approach to exploring the depiction of human rights and their violations on-screen by considering both narrative and visual devices, funding and director’s intents, as well as the larger cinematic context in which the respective work of art lies.
17. Nadine Labaki - Businessabc
Nadine Labaki is a Lebanese actress, director, and activist renowned for her significant contributions to the film industry.
18. Interview with Nadine Labaki about the lives in Capernaum ...
Dec 16, 2018 · The lives of others. Nadine Labaki on Capernaum and the way the refugee crisis affects children. by Anne-Katrin Titze ...
Capernaum (Capharnaüm) director Nadine Labaki on Zain al Rafeea: "He knows the violence of the streets, he knows abuse, he knows mistreatment." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
19. Femme Film Fest 2023 Review: Capernaum (Nadine Labaki)
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Review for the 8th Femme Filmmakers Festival of the Cannes award winning film from Nadine Labaki, Capernaum.
20. 'Capernaum' Director Nadine Labaki Now Filming in Post-Blast Beirut
Oct 8, 2020 · 4, when 2,750 tons of neglected ammonium nitrate detonated in the city's port, leaving 190 dead, more than 6,500 injured and roughly 300,000 ...
'Capernaum' director Nadine Labaki is filming in post-explosion Beirut to highlight its recovery struggle and the government's response.
21. Nadine Labaki on Life, Freedom and Cinema's True Power, in Cannes
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If there is one film that changed my life, it's Nadine Labaki's Caramel. It is the kind of movie I can watch again and again, and still find hidden within it new gems of wisdom and insights.
