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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.
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