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CLOSE Belgium-Netherlands-France, 2022, 105′, color, feature

Leo and Remi, two thirteen-year-old best friends, have spent every moment of their summer together. As the season ends, a new school year brings with it a new set of social pressures that tests their intimate, seemingly unbreakable bond. 

 

An enthralling, breathless visual style plunges viewers into the exhilarating, emotionally uncertain world of adolescence with immersive, devastating clarity. Lukas Dhont’s second film is a transformative and unforgettable portrait of the intersection of friendship and love, identity and independence, and heartbreak and healing.

 

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Cannes ’22 – Grand Prize

Lukas Dhont

Lukas Dhont

Lukas Dhont was born in Ghent, Belgium. He graduated in Audio-Visual Arts from the KASK School of Arts. His short films “Headlong” and “L'Infini” have won numerous awards. “L'Infini” was nominated for an Oscar in 2015. His first feature film “Girl” won multiple awards at prestigious film festivals, including a Golden Camera Award, a FIPRESCI Award and Best Actor in the Un Certain Regard section, and a Queer Palm Award at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

2012 Headlong

2012 Skin of Glass

2014 L'Infini

2018 Girl

2021 Our Nature

2022 Close

DIRECTOR
Lukas Dhont
SCRIPT
Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens
CAMERA
Frank van den Eeden
MUSIC
Valentin Hadjadj
CAST
Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Émilie Dequenne, Léa Drucker, Kevin Janssens
PRODUCERS
Michiel Dhont, Dirk Impens
PRODUCTION
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CLOSE Belgium-Netherlands-France, 2022, 105′, color, feature

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