U.S. director Matty Brown’s allegorical drama “The Sand Castle,” which sees Lebanese multi-hyphenate Nadine Labaki reunite on screen with young “Capernaum” siblings Zain and Reman Al Rafeea – who are ...

The Gist: Little Jana (Riman Al Rafeea) has converted the scrub and sand of this island space and the blue-green sea that surrounds it into a fantastical world of whimsy and imagined castles. It’s her ...

Matty Brown with young stars of The Sand Castle Zain Al Rafeea (L), M Riman Al Rafeea (R) Getty Images The image of the lifeless body of two-year-old Kurdish-Syrian boy Alan Kurdi lying washed up on a ...

NEW YORK – At 12, Syrian refugee Zain Al Rafeaa barely knew how to write his name. He was discovered in the streets of Beirut by Lebanese film director Nadine Labaki, who cast him to star in her new ...

Netflix has officially boarded “The Sand Castle” that sees Lebanese multi-hyphenate Nadine Labaki reunite on screen with “Capernaum” siblings Zain and Reman Al Rafeea. The streaming giant has set a ...