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Kazim Oz
Born in 1973 in Dersim, Turkey. For his first short film Ax (The Land) Öz won many international awards. He completed his first feature film Fotoğraf (The Photograph) in 2001 which also won several awards. One of the festivals was National Geographic All Roads Film Festival. The movie was released in Turkey and Germany in 2002. In 2005, with his first feature documentary Dur (The Distant, 74 min), he won “The Best Documentary” award in Nurnberg IFF and in Ankara IFF. The film was created with the help of IDFA Jan Vrijman fund and screened in ARTE France and international televisions. He produced and directed the film BahÖz (The Storm, 2008) and met with an audience of more than 100000. The docudrama Demsala Dawi: Şewaxan (The Last Season of Shawaks, 2010) was accomplished with the coproduction of Arte-France. The film was bought and sold by Arte-France and it
was showed in many international televisions. In 2011, Öz was a member of Milano Film Festival jury.
Filmography
2014 – Once Upon a Time
2010 – Last Season of Shawaks
2008 – Storm
2005 – The Distant
2001 – The Photograph
1999 – The Land