“Lady,” the story of a younger trans dancer, was nominated as finest overseas movie on the 2018 Golden Globes. “Shut,” concerning the friendship of two youngsters who’re tragically separated, was nominated for overseas movie on the 2023 Golden Globes. These two function movies have been directed by Belgian Lucas Dhont, president of the Queer Palm jury for this 77th Cannes movie pageant.
In an unique interview, he spoke with the Golden Globes.
The Romanian movie “Three Kilometers to the Finish of the World” (Trei Kilometri Pana La Capatul Lumii) by Emanuel Parvu follows the lifetime of a young person who’s violently attacked for his homosexuality. It gained the Queer Palm 2024. What’s the origin of this award?
The Queer Palm was created 14 years in the past. Every year it rewards a function movie and a brief movie from the Cannes alternatives, each from the official choice and from Un Sure Regard, the Critics’ Week and the Filmmakers’ Fortnight for instance. It was an honor for me to chair the jury however I’m not the one one to determine since I’ve 4 colleagues by my facet who, like me, attended screenings of all of the queer movies of this 2024 version of the Pageant de Cannes. Our purpose is to attract public consideration to a queer movie within the hope that this award will introduce it to many spectators.
How do you decide the evolution of queer cinema right now?
I gained the Queer Palm, in addition to the Digital camera d’Or, on the 2018 Cannes Movie Pageant for my first function movie ‘Lady’. I’m the primary to have the ability to decide positively the evolution of Queer cinema in 2024. This yr there are 17 function movies that have been eligible for the Queer Palm at Cannes. We now have extra alternatives to inform our tales and a wider viewers who desires to see our movies. However there may be nonetheless a option to go so that each one the sensitivities of my group may be expressed by way of the seventh artwork.
Does taking part within the pageant encourage you for brand spanking new tasks?
I like seeing the work of different artists and following the evolution of queer cinema all over the world, however being in Cannes this yr above all permits me to get out of my bubble and take a break. I’m in the midst of writing the script for my subsequent movie and I are inclined to shut myself away like a hermit. Once I write, I isolate myself from the surface world. This provide to return to the pageant instantly appealed to me even when I don’t like leaving my faculty desk after I’m researching my script.
What are you able to inform us about your subsequent movie?
Since my beginnings I’ve written what I do know. If ‘Lady’ and ‘Shut’ have been above all tales about adolescence, I wish to inform a extra grownup story however it’s nonetheless a lot too early to enter particulars as a result of I’m solely in the beginning of this function movie. I’ve the prospect to work carefully with my brother, Michiel, who’s the producer of my tasks and who traveled with me to Cannes, which permits us to proceed to evolve on my subsequent shoot whereas being at this pageant.
You appear to wish to area out the discharge of your movies by 3 or 4 years. Why ?
That is the time I want to arrange, discover my concepts, write, shoot, do post-production after which comply with my movies all over the world. It might sound unusual however I’m an introvert who forgets his shyness on the subject of presenting my work to spectators. I actually spend lengthy months virtually not leaving the home to an intense interval on the movie units then I lock myself away once more for modifying and I attempt to remodel myself into an Ambassador for my movie by touring the planet of premiere pageant or gala evenings.
Your first two function movies have been every nominated on the Golden Globes…
Having been nominated twice for the Golden Globes is nothing however happiness! This allowed many People to find my movies and to have the prospect to fulfill a global viewers.
Since your first participation within the Golden Globes ceremony have you ever met American artists who made you wish to shoot a movie in america and in English?
I’ve had many encounters like that of Margot Robbie, whom I love. However I consider my assembly with Emma Stone stays one in all my finest reminiscences and I might like to collaborate at some point together with her however I’ve was far too shy throughout our transient chat to ask her if she had seen one in all my movies or not. In any case, for the second I proceed to jot down and shoot my movies mixing Flemish and French as a result of I’m Belgian and pleased with my origins.