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Cast & Crew
- Director
- Producer
- Screenwriter
- Director of photography
- Main Cast
- Casting
- Editor (Cut)
- Sound
- Original Score
- Production Design
- VFX Supervisor
- Makeup
Director's comment
CLOSE is a film about connection, friendship and the loss thereof.During my puberty I started to distance myself more and more from my male friends because I was afraid of labels. As a consequence, I missed out on some profound relationships. According to Niobe Way, an American psychologist, there's a crisis of connection connected with masculinity. Boys from a young age are taught to not value the close and fragile connection with other boys and their own emotional worlds as much as they should.
In a culture filled with toxic masculine precedents, I wanted to make a film about the loss of tenderness.
Biography
Lukas Dhont was born in Ghent, Belgium. He graduated with a diploma in audio-visual arts from the KASK School Of Arts in Ghent. Throughout his studies, he focused on fiction but also explored the possibilities of documentary. In 2016, Lukas Dhont participated in the Cannes Cinéfondation residency with the script for his first feature film, GIRL. This film combines themes the filmmaker had already explored in his short work, including: dance, transformation and identity. Lukas Dhont collaborates regularly with choreographer and dancer Jan Martens with whom he co-signed a performance titled The Common People. In 2018 Lukas’ first feature film, GIRL, was presented at the Cannes festival, in the official selection "Un Certain Regard" and won, among other awards, the Caméra d’Or for Best First Movie. His second feature film CLOSE was selected as part of the Official Competition of the 75th Edition of the Cannes Film festival and won the Grand Prix.FILMOGRAPHY:
2022 - CLOSE, Feature
2018 - GIRL, Feature
2014 - L'INFINI, Short
2012 - SKIN OF GLASS, Short
2012 - CORPS PERDU, Short
Cast & Crew
Lukas DhontMichiel Dhont, Michel Saint-Jean, Laurette Schillings, Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Dirk Impens, Frans van Gestel
Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens
Frank van den Eeden
Eden Dambrine (Leo), Gustav De Waele (Remi), Emilie Dequenne (Sophie)
Sebastian Moradiellos, Oliver Roels
Alain Dessauvage
Yanna Soentjens, Vincent Sinceretti, Michel Schöpping
Valentin Hadjadj
Eve Martin, Manu Verschueren
Laurens Orij
Michelle Beeckman
