:: zozo ::

ZOZO screens tomorrow afternoon at the Dole Cannery.

ZOZO is the official Swedish entry for the Academy Awards(R) Foreign Language Film category and is the third feature film from Josef Fares, director of the hilarious spoof and LVHIFF favorite KOPPS.

Together with Black African/Swedish hip hop star Timbuktu, Fares, who is half-Lebanese, half-Swede is pushing aside old concepts of what it means to be French or German or Swedish.

ZOZO's soundtrack is exquisite. The composer Adam Nordén was awarded, at the Swedish Film Gala Guldbaggen, a Golden Ram Award for his work with the music for the film. As Film Music notes, "Nordén carefully crafts his universe with a sad piano, a soft duduk, the occasional guitar, even a choir, and a toned down string ensemble. The resulting landscape is one of desolation but also of painful beauty."