CAPHARNAÜM

Twelve-year-old Zain stands in a Beirut court and declares that he wants to sue his parents “for giving [him] life”. A shocking and outlandish statement, but as Labaki’s film traces through Zain’s experiences – born in a family overwhelmed by too many children, slum neighbourhoods, a sister sold into marriage, deprivation and roaming the streets as the sole caretaker of an abandoned toddler – his grievances against the world and those who brought him into it reverberate with righteous fury.