Syrian refugee boy is stand-out star of Cannes film festival
- Zain Al Rafeea, who has been working as a delivery boy in Beirut until recently — and who has only just learned to write his name — turns in a performance in “Capernaum” that critics said would melt the hardest of hearts.
- Director Nadine Labaki took six months to make the odyssey through the lives of the poorest of the poor, in the slums of the Lebanese capital, using amateur actors.