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LET'S CEE Film Festival
Damjan Kozole is one of Slovenia’s best known film directors. Born in 1964 in Brežice, he made his first film, The Fatal Telephone (1986), one of the very first independent productions in former Yugoslavia, at the tender age of 22. Finally, Porno Film marked his breakthrough in 2000. Kozole’s work has earned lots of awards such as the Nova Award and the Prix Titra Film of the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival (2003), the Honourable Mention at the Sarajevo Film Festival (2003) and the Best Director Award at the Valencia Festival of Mediterranean Cinema (2006). Furthermore, Spare Parts and Slovenian Girl were also nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. The American Film Institute dedicated a large retrospective to Damjan Kozole in 2005. In 2008, Spare Parts (2003) ranked among British film magazine Sight & Sound’s ten most important films of the New Europe. The Rome Film Festival awarded him a lifetime achievement award in 2012 and this year, the LET’S CEE Film Festival will include a retrospective featuring his three most successful films Spare Parts (2003), Labour Equals Freedom (2004) and Slovenian Girl (2009).
