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Director

Lukas Dhont  

Country

Belgium, France, Netherlands

Runtime

1 h 45 min

Language

French, Dutch

Premiere

MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)

Synopsis

The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother.

Cast

Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Émilie Dequenne, Léa Drucker, Kevin Janssens

Screenplay

Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens

Producers

 Michiel Dhont, Dirk Impens

About the Director

A Belgian director who graduated with a diploma in audio-visual arts from the KASK School Of Arts in Ghent. 2018 Lukas’ first feature film, GIRL, was presented at Cannes Film festival, in Un Certain Regard and won, among other awards, the Caméra d’Or for Best First Movie. CLOSE won the Grand Prix in the 75th edition of Cannes Film Festival.

Screenings

Sun 20 Nov · 12:30 – 14:15 Opera House - Small Theatre