rating 8.4
trailers and stuffDirector: Nadine Labaki
Cast: Zain Al Rafeea Yordanos Shiferaw Boluwatife Treasure Bankole Kawsar Al Haddad Fadi Yousef
With his family grappling with extreme poverty, forever indebted to their ruthless landlord, the sad twelve-year-old boy, Zain, is forced to fend for himself in the squalid and overcrowded slums of Beirut. Unable to save his eleven-year-old sister, Sahar, from an uneasy arrangement, Zain will soon find himself all alone in a faceless city, ending up at a small amusement park to befriend another lost soul: the Ethiopian cleaner and mother of one, Rahil. But, in this grim and hostile world, there is no room for dreamers–and as a horrifying discovery is the last straw–a rabid desire for retribution possesses Zain and his blood-thirsty knife demands justice. Who is to blame when love becomes hate, and life turns into an unendurable torment?::Nick Riganas