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Originally Posted by Nicholas Bell

Belgian director Lukas Dhont won the Camera d’Or for his polarizing 2018 debut Girl, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes where it won the Queer Palm, the FIPRESCI Prize and a Best Actor award for Vincent Polster. The Match Factory reunites with Dhont on his sophomore project Close, which also sees the director collaborating once again with co-writer Angelo Tijssens and producers Dirk Impens of Belgian production company Menuet, and Michiel Dhont. His latest examines the close friendship of two 13-year-old boys who drift apart when others question their relationship. A tragedy forces one of them to examine the real reasons behind the estrangement. Dhont has eyed the summer of 2021 for his shoot. [+]