As so often with films that have their heart in the right place, I wished this would do more interesting things with its premise.

Josef Fares films ranked

A powerfully acted tale of a Lebanese boy's refuge in Sweden with his grandparents featuring some fantasy moments to counterbalance the carnage.

An effective way of portraying the tragedy of Lebanon. Complemented by unobtrusive soundtrack.

Zozo is a 2005 Swedish-Lebanese film about a Lebanese boy during the civil war, who gets separated from his family and ends up in Sweden living with his grandparents. Written and directed by Swedish-Lebanese director Josef Fares, the story was mostly inspired by his real life immigration to Sweden during the war. He even decided to cast his own relatives in this movie: Abdulahad Fares was Rita's dad and Fares Fares (Josefs brother) was the voice of the talking chicken.

The film was Sweden's representative for Best Foreign film at the 78th Academy Awards and won The Nordic Council Film Prize in 2006. But, I'll have to admit that the beginning was too slow... after that picked up, but some of the dreaming sequences were a little bit confusing for an average viewer.

At the end, I can say it was a good movie I enjoyed watching... bring us more Swedish-Lebanese movies!

Ow:( The early 00s late 90s Lebanese war time coming of age films are always painful as fuck. West Beruit vibes in terms of film texture, lens, subject matter. But not at all that. Magical realism has this random occurrence but isn’t really apart of it lowkey. Which makes for something interesting but idk of it works that well. It deff comments on the fragile mind of children and their imaginations ability to cope in extremely traumatic conditions, but he could’ve DONE it then in that case instead of doing it once and having me ask myself if that was a mistake lol.  Nothing incredibly novel in terms of technique, frame, technology, or style. Very smooth and easy watch though. That scene when he does a shaky pan to the sky suddenly and bombs start dropping is INSANE to me tho.

The way this film combines a war film with an immigrant film is beautiful

The way they portrayed dreams and trauma was pretty interesting.
I've enjoyed it, pretty fun watch.

5/10

As so often with films that have their heart in the right place, I wished this would do more interesting things with its premise.

Josef Fares films ranked

I was just sad Zozo could not see his sweet Rita again :-( It is a powerful film nevertheless, and lovely simplistically innocent view through a child's point of view. Great and lighthearted performance from the young boy spiked up with some cool animated sequences to lighten up the tough Lebanese background story this boy is coming from makes it makes it an emotionally touching watch.

it was alright. the editing was hilariously bad and it was a lot of fun watching the grandpa go nuts. the tone was all over the place, you literally go from a talking chicken to his family being killed in a bombing.

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Trodde den skulle vara mycket starkare...

A powerfully acted tale of a Lebanese boy's refuge in Sweden with his grandparents featuring some fantasy moments to counterbalance the carnage.

An effective way of portraying the tragedy of Lebanon. Complemented by unobtrusive soundtrack.

Zozo is a 2005 Swedish-Lebanese film about a Lebanese boy during the civil war, who gets separated from his family and ends up in Sweden living with his grandparents. Written and directed by Swedish-Lebanese director Josef Fares, the story was mostly inspired by his real life immigration to Sweden during the war. He even decided to cast his own relatives in this movie: Abdulahad Fares was Rita's dad and Fares Fares (Josefs brother) was the voice of the talking chicken.

The film was Sweden's representative for Best Foreign film at the 78th Academy Awards and won The Nordic Council Film Prize in 2006. But, I'll have to admit that the beginning was too slow... after that picked up, but some of the dreaming sequences were a little bit confusing for an average viewer.

At the end, I can say it was a good movie I enjoyed watching... bring us more Swedish-Lebanese movies!