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. It was directed by Swedish-Lebanese director Josef Fares.
The film was Sweden's representative for Best Foreign film at the 78th Academy Awards .
Selected to represent Sweden at the 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006) in the Foreign Language Film category.
The director, Josef Fares, have casted his own relatives in "Zozo", as he has done in other films. We see Abdulahad Fares as Rita's dad and hear Fares Fares (Josefs brother) as the voice of the chicken.
The director, Josef Fares, began his life in Lebanon and came to Sweden as a young child, just like Zozo.
