First look: Trailer Nadine Labaki’s Cannes-winning ‘Capharnaüm’

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The trailer for Nadine Labaki’s Jury Prize winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is here and we have your first look. 

Capharnaüm tells the politically charged story of a young Lebanese boy named Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) who announces that he wants to sue his parents “for giving me life.” After running away, he holds up at a decrepit fairground and befriends a young Ethiopian woman named Rahil (Yordanos Shiferaw), who is working illegally in Lebanon with her undocumented toddler Yonas (played by one-year-old Boluwatife Treasure Bankole) in tow. The two make their way across the country in an effort to escape. 

The film is likely to be one of this year’s top Foreign Language Film Oscar contenders and can next be seen at the Toronto International Film Festival where Labaki previously won the fest’s Audience Award for her film Where Do We Go Now? in 2011.

Sony Pictures Classics will release the award-winning film in the US on December 14, 2018.

Here is the trailer. 

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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