Capernaum (aka Chaos)

After a tenacious, street-savvy, bitter, angry, 12-year-old Lebanese boy (Zain Al Rafeea) runs away from his neglectful, abusive, poverty-stricken parents (Kawthar Al Haddad and Fadi Kamel Youssef) and God knows how many siblings in the horrific slums of Beirut in the touching, factually inspired, disturbing, heartbreaking, gritty, well-acted, critically acclaimed, 130-minute film, he is befriended by a struggling. kindhearted Ethiopian cleaning woman (Yordanos Shiferaw), who has an adorable infant son (Boluwatife Treasure Bankole) and also has no identification card and eventually ends up with a 5-year prison sentence for stabbing the manipulative shopkeeper husband (Nour El Husseini) of his innocent 11-year-old sister (Haita 'Cedra' Izzam) and sues his parents for bringing him into this hellish world.
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