Nadi Cinema, the Middle East Film Club, presents Capernaum (Nadine Labaki, Lebanon, 20) at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, in Hembree Auditorium on the U of A campus.

Capernaum is the highly acclaimed third film by Lebanese director/actress Nadine Labaki, considered by many critics one of the best films of 2018  It tells the story of undocumented street children, local and migrant, in Beirut seeking justice through the courts and taking justice into their own hands. Arabic w/ English subtitles – 126 minutes.

Nadi Cinema screens films from across the Middle East and sometimes beyond. All films — classics, cult favorites, recent hits, comedies, tragedies, thrillers, social commentaries and romances — are subtitled in English. Screenings are free and open to the public. The series is hosted by professor Joel Gordon (history). Come see movies the way they were filmed to be screened — in a dark theater with friends and strangers.  

All screenings take place in Hembree Auditorium, room 107E in the Agricultural Food and Life Science building (AFLS), next to the Pat Walker Health Center on Maple Street. Metered parking is available nearby at the Garland Avenue Parking Garage. 

Call 479-575-2175 for more information on the Fall 2022 line-up.