Zozo

Aroview: Sincere and occasionally dreamlike tale of displacement follows the plight of a 10-year old boy (Creidi) caught in the midst of Lebanon's civil war of the 1980s, who sets out on a journey to find sanctuary in Sweden.

His family have already bought tickets and arranged passports when they are wiped out in a bombing, and Creidi must make his away across the rubble of Beirut with his pet chicken (whom he imagines talks to him) and a young girl, to try and catch a plane to freedom. Melding kinetic action with the sensibilities of its child protagonist, this turns to sadder, slower matters in its second half, but retains the integrity of its message and performances throughout.

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