Nadine Labaki Teases Next Film as Director After Smash Hit Capernaum

Of all the attendees at the Red Sea Film Festival , only jury member Nadine Labaki can lay claim to having directed the most successful Arabic film in history.

“ Capernaum ,” Labaki’s third feature after “Caramel” and “Where do We Go Now,” became an unexpected smash hit for the groundbreaking Lebanese director back in 2018. The film earned critical acclaim when it first bowed in Cannes that year, winning the Jury Prize, and would go on to land an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film, making Labaki the first female Arab director to be nominated in that category. But when it was later released in China, something astonishing happened and the film — about a young refugee boy living in the slums of Beirut who sues his parents for child neglect — became a phenomenon, pushing i