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 featurelength 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 dOr 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 Dhonts 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
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