Updated On: 27 May, 2018 05:38 AM IST | Mumbai | Meenakshi Shedde
The film is about Zain, a 12-year-old Beirut street urchin, who sues his parents "because they gave me life."


Lebanese director Nadine Labaki won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her film Capernaum (Capharnaum). The film is about Zain, a 12-year-old Beirut street urchin, who sues his parents "because they gave me life." Zain's family is dirt-poor; his parents practically sell his younger sister Samar in marriage to their landlord's creepy son. Zain flees his family, and soon lands in prison, from where he sues his parents. If children sued their parents in India, the courts would have at least 2,000 times the cases they have now. Vice versa must also be true.