Blog: Director Nadine Labaki’s ‘Capernaum’ took her on a journey from the slums of Beirut to the United Nations

“Two days after we shot the scene in which Rahil, the baby’s mother, gets arrested, the actress got arrested in real life,” Labaki said of Yordanos Shiferaw, who, like her character, is Ethiopian. “She got arrested in exactly the same situation and same reasons — she didn’t have any papers. When we were shooting, she was illegal.”