Damjan Kozole

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Damjan Kozole in 2012

Damjan Kozole (born 1964 in

Sight & Sound
ranked this film among the ten most important films of the New Europe.

In 2012 Kozole received Lifetime Achievement Award at the Rome Film Festival.

In his films, "some of the most raffish, funky and even sordid characters discover their own humanity" (Alissa Simon, Variety).

For his new film Nightlife (2016) he won Best director award at the 51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Selected feature films

Spare Parts (Rezervni deli)

His 2003 feature film

Sight & Sound
ranked Spare Parts among ten most important films of the “New Europe”.

Labour Equals Freedom (Delo osvobaja)

Labour Equals Freedom was premiered at the

Locarno International Film Festival 2005 and won the Grand Prix (Golden Palm) and best director award (Silver Palm) at the 2006 Valencia Int. Film Festival. It tells a story of a depressed middle-age man who, due to a twist of fate, finds new joy in life through working for the common good. According to Variety
, "Kozole creates a mood of affectionate cynicism, with shrewd subtexts tallying foibles of contempo society" (Eddie Cockrell).

Forever (Za vedno)

Forever (2008) is a minimalist, full-length feature film Kozole shot in six nights in his own apartment. The film was premiered at the

Rotterdam International Film Festival
programmer Ludmila Cvikova, "the script is masterfully processed by the director and the entire film is carried by the excellent achievements of the two leading actors".

Slovenian Girl (Slovenka)

Moving Pictures Magazine, "the film is ultimately a fascinating study of free enterprise in free fall. In this mesmerizing chamber piece, director Damjan Kozole has contrived a new style of narrative to convey a view of capitalist culture at once outrageous and non-judgmental" (Shaz Bennett
).

Nightlife (Nočno življenje)

Documentary films

Kozole is also the author of many documentaries dealing with visual arts like Ulay's journal from November to November – a feature-length documentary about artist Ulay (2012) or Two or Three Things I know About Her – about visual artist Zora Stančič (2010), and documentary films dealing with social themes like The Long Vacation – a feature-length documentary on formally erased citizens (2012, Best Slovenian documentary of the year).

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