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Damjan Kozole

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[[image:Damjan Kozole at the Toronto International Film Festival 2009.jpg|right|thumb|Damjan Kozole at the Toronto International Film Festival 2009]]

Damjan Kozole was born 1964 in Brezice, Slovenia, then Yugoslavia. One of the most recognized Slovenian films directors. In his films, "some of the most raffish, funky and even sordid characters discover their own humanity". In 2005, a Damjan Kozole film retrospective took place in the United States and Canada, hosted by the American Film Institute (AFI).


Films

His 2003 feature film Spare Parts was screened in the Competition Programme at Berlinale 2003 and following that at more than fifty international film festivals, where it won many international awards and entered the selection of best European Film for the European Film Awards. According to The Guardian »Slovenian writer-director Damjan Kozole has given us one of the most powerful and provocative movies of the year« and Sight&Sound Magazine ranked Spare Parts among ten most important films of the New Europe.

Labour Equals Freedom (2005) won the Grand Prix (Golden Palm) at the International Film Festival in Valencia 2006.

Forever (2008) is a minimalist, full-length feature film Kozole shot in six nights in his own apartment. The film won the Golden Sun award for best film at the European Film Festival in Skopje, Macedonia.

Slovenian girl (2009) - premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival Sept. 2009

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