在黎巴嫩貧民窟長大的12歲男孩Zain，與其他街童一樣周街兜售物品謀生，家中充斥大量非法藥物和關係複雜的兄弟姊妹，父母把藥物以非常的手段運給獄中服役的哥哥圖謀利益。Zain在極度貧窮的環境下掙扎求存，保護妹妹及被「丟棄」的黑人嬰兒，過程令人心碎，感染力極強，猶如《一百萬零一夜》街童版。《Where Do We Go Now?》女星導演Nadine Labaki再次批判當地貧窮問題和社會階級制度的停滯，鏡頭從男孩的視角反思血緣和家庭的觀念，控訴親情的牽絆中人性的虛偽，一路披著惡意的荊棘，走到康城影展獲評審團獎，實至名歸。

Lebanese drama Capharnaüm depicts the desperate, stranger- than-fiction lives of the Middle East’s countless neglected, poverty- stricken children. Actress-turned-director Nadine Labaki’s surprising third feature tells the tale of a 12 year-old who sues his parents for bringing him into the world. As unusual as that decision is, it’s nothing compared to the boy’s story: an epic of suffering that moves from his squalid home life through his chaotic daily struggle to his refuge with an undocumented Ethiopian woman – who ultimately leaves him as the sole guardian of her adorable toddler. Rewarded with a 15-minute standing ovation after its Cannes premiere, this is an emotionally powerful and astoundingly human work that is destined to be remembered.