Damjan Kozole

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Full Name	Damjan Kozole
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Jun 1, 1964(1964-06-01)
Age	60
Birthplace	Brežice
Country	Slovenia
Horoscope	Gemini

Damjan Kozole Biography

Damjan Kozole is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on June 1, 1964 in Brežice, Slovenia. Damjan Kozole (born 1964 in Brezice, Slovenia) is a Slovenian filmmaker, whose credits for directing include the critically acclaimed 2003 film Spare Parts and 2009 worldwide released Slovenian Girl, among others. Spare Parts was nominated to this year’s Golden Bear at the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival; in 2008, Sight & Sound ranked this film among the top ten important films from The New Europe.

Slovenian Girl (2009) was premiering in 2009 at the Toronto International Film Festival and afterward, it was shown at over 100 film festivals around the world. Alexandra, a twenty-three-year-old Slovenian, leads a double life: she is a respectable student and a call girl. The film was awarded Grand Prix, Best director award, and Best screenplay at the 2012 Girona film festival, as well as the Public award at the Cinessone Film Festival in Paris in addition to Nina Ivanisin won many international awards for her role in the film. The film premiered in over fifty countries, and in the US under the name A Call Girl. As per 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).

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).

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

Forever (2008) Forever (2008) is an uncluttered full-length feature film Kozole made in just 6 nights at his personal apartment. It presented in the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2008 and was awarded the Golden Sun award for best film at the European Film Festival in Skopje, Macedonia. In the film, Forever unfolds in a very in real-time. We see what’s happening behind the entrance to an apartment: gruesome emotional moment of two couples in which the line between hate and love is shattered. As per 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”.

Damjan Kozole Net Worth

Damjan Kozole is one of the richest Film Director from Slovenia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Damjan Kozole 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The feature film he directed in 2003 Spare Parts tells a story of two human traffickers who hail from the town of a few hundred people in Slovenia who are able to transport illegal immigrants from Croatia onto Western Europe, for a huge amount. The film premiered as part of the Competition Programme at Berlinale 2003 and then it was screened at over fifty film festivals around the world and won numerous international prizes. The film was released theatrically across more than twenty countries. As per The Guardian, “Slovenian writer-director Damjan Kozole has given us one of the most powerful and provocative movies of the year” (Peter Bradshaw). The year 2008 Sight & Sound ranked Spare Parts as one of the top ten films from”The New Europe” “New Europe”.

Labour Equals Freedom was premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2005. The film was awarded an award of Grand Prix (Golden Palm) and best director prize (Silver Palm) at the 2006 Valencia Int. Film Festival. It is a tale of a man in middle age depressed who, through some unforeseen circumstances and finds happiness in his life by engaging in the cause of the good of the community. As per Variety, “Kozole creates a mood of affectionate cynicism, with shrewd subtexts tallying foibles of contempo society” (Eddie Cockrell).

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

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