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Lukas Dhont’s ‘Close’, Cannes award-winning film, has already been sold to 100 countries

Dhont spent the entire period of the Film Festival in Cannes, to promote his film, but also to negotiate the sale of the rights to foreign distributors. “We’ve really been through a lot with “Girl” (about Lara, a 15-year-old transgender girl who wants to make it as a ballerina), especially in North America,” he said in De Morgen last weekend. “We had sold the rights to Netflix, but at some point they wanted to re-edit the film.”

“I have now explicitly asked to be involved in the negotiations, especially when it comes to large territories such as North America, the UK, Japan, …”

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