Girl Victor Polster x Lukas Dhont
Images by Jan-Willem Dikkers
Written by Lukas Dhont and Angelo Tijssens, Girl is a 2018 Belgian drama film directed by Dhont. It follows the teenaged Lara as she studies at a prestigious Belgian dance academy and prepares for sex reassignment surgery. The film screened in the Un Certain Regard section 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—an independently sponsored prize for selected LGBT-relevant films entered into the Cannes Film Festival.