Close

Original name: Close
English name: Close
Year: 2022
Run time: 105 Minutes
Language: French, Dutch
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands
Director: Lukas Dhont
Producers: Michiel Dhont, Dirk Impens
Cast: Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Emilie Dequenne, Léa Drucker, Kevin Janssens
Screenplay: Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens
Cinematographer: Frank van den Eeden
Editor: Alain Dessauvage
Sound Designer: Yanna Soentjens
Music Composer: Valentin Hadjadj
Production Company: Menuet, Diaphana Films, Topkapi Films, Versus Production
World Sales: The Match Factory

Festivals:

• Cannes FF
• Telluride FF
• BFI London FF
• Karlovy Vary IFF
• Chicago IFF
• Busan IFF

Director’s Selected Filmography:

• 2018 Girl
• 2014 L'infini (Short)
• 2012 Skin of Glass (Short)
• 2012 Headlong (Short)

Director's Biography:

Lukas Dhont is a Belgian filmmaker who earned a degree in Audio-Visual Arts from the KASK Conservatorium. His short films Corps Perdu and L’Infini received numerous prizes. In 2016 Lukas Dhont participated in the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence with the script of his first feature film Girl. The film combined themes the filmmaker had already examined, including dance, transformation and identity. Girl was awarded the Caméra d’or for best first feature at Cannes on its 2018 premiere in Un Certain Regard.

Synopsis:

The intense friendship between two thirteen-year-old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Leo approaches Sophie, Remi's mother. Close is a film about friendship and responsibility.