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After taking home the Un Certain Regard Fipresci prize in 2018 for the trans-female ballet dancer feature Girl, filmmaker Lukas Dhont returned to home to find himself staring at the blank page for his next project. That would ultimately be this year’s in competition movie, Close, which grapples with teen suicide and…

Belgium's Lukas Dhont takes a deserved step up to the Cannes Film Festival competition with Close, only his second film — a minimalist melodrama that shows a definite growth in visual style but may be confronting to some with its deliberately unhurried, Eric Rohmer-esque aesthetic. The international success of Dhont's…

A24 has picked up North American rights to Lukas Dhont's Close. The movie is making its world premiere tonight in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Close follows the intense friendship between 13-year-old boys Léo and Remi (newcomers Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele), which suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to…

Lukas Dhont graduates to the main Competition today at Cannes as his new movie Close premieres. It's the highly anticipated second feature from the Belgian helmer after his debut, Girl, premiered here in Un Certain Regard. And as Dhont readies for the festival's biggest stage, his two young leads, newcomers Eden…

Lukas Dhont's Cannes debut was also his debut feature, Girl, which ran in Un Certain Regard in 2018. A stunning start for the young Belgian, the movie brought him the Caméra d'Or and myriad other prizes down the line. Now, four years later, Dhont is returning to Cannes with his follow-up, Close, which has landed him…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Lukas Dhont is to reteam with his Girl co-writer Angelo Tijssens and producer Dirk Impens (The Broken Circle Breakdown) on his next movie, which will be “different but also in the style of Girl.” "We're slowly starting to shape and write it,” the director told us about the as-yet untitled project.…

Lukas Dhont’s feted debut feature Girl has been among the most talked about foreign language films of the year. The Belgian drama has also become a lightning rod for the growing discussion over on screen representation. The film recounts the true story of a 15-year-old girl, born in the body of a boy, who dreams of…

EXCLUSIVE: Girl was just nominated as Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes yesterday and is the official entry from Belgium for the Foreign Language Feature competition at the Oscars (voting by the Academy’s Foreign Language committee began yesterday). It is a favorite to be named among the nine finalists…

As Belgium’s submission for this year's Foreign Language Oscar race, the Lukas Dhont-directed drama Girl tells the story of Lara (Victor Polster), a 15-year-old girl born in a boy’s body committed to becoming a professional ballerina. The film, which is Dhont’s debut feature and based on a real-life woman named Nora…

Belgium has selected Lukas Dhont's debut feature, Girl, as its submission for this year's Foreign Language Oscar race. The drama won the Camera d'Or in Cannes for best first film, and also scored the Best Performance nod in the Un Certain Regard section for lead Victor Polster. Netflix acquired Girl for North and…