Lukas Dhont
Belgian film director and screenwriter. He was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in 2019. Dhont was born in Ghent, Belgium. His mother, Hilbe is a fashion teacher at an art school. He has a younger brother Michiel who is a producer. As a teenager, Dhont worked as a costume design assistant on film and television sets. He made his feature-length debut in 2018 with Girl, a drama film inspired by the story of Nora Monsecour which focuses on a trans girl pursuing a career as a ballerina. Girl premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or award for best first feature film, as well as the Queer Palm. It received the André Cavens Award for Best Film given by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC) and was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards. It received nine nominations at the 9th Magritte Awards and won four, including Best Flemish Film and Best Screenplay for Dhont. Dhont's second feature, Close, starring Emilie Dequenne and Léa Drucker, premiered in competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where he shared the Grand Prix with Claire Denis' Stars At Noon. It also won the Sydney Film Prize in June 2022. The film is based on his own experiences at school, and tells the story of the friendship between two boys in their early teens. As of July 2021 Dhont is developing an untitled film with screenwriter Laurent Lunetta. - IMDb Mini Biography By: yusufpiskin
- Tytuł: Lukas Dhont
- Popularność: 1.644
- Znany z: Directing
- Urodziny: 1991-06-11
- Miejsce urodzenia: Ghent, Belgium
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- Znany również jako: Лукас Донт
