Biography
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 feature-length 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. ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Young Mothers
2025
Co-Producer
Housed in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julie, Naïma and Ariane, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obta...
Babygirl
2024
Thanks
A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.
Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road
2024
as Self
An analysis of the work of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (1950-2015), an experimental and innovative artist, both in content and form, who has lef...
Through the Night
2023
Co-Producer
One night, a woman in danger calls the police. Anna takes the call. A man is arrested. Weeks go by, the courts are looking for evidence, Aly, Anna and...
Close
2022
Writer, Director
Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.
Our Nature
2021
Director, Writer
A poetic and bittersweet codetta. Themes such as the craving for human contact and the impossibility to come together are central to this miniature pi...
Girl
2018
Director, Screenplay
A promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria.
Infinity
2014
Director, Writer
The story is about a boy who is bouncing back and forth between different stages of life, but it is also a story between man and child.
Boys On Film X
2013
Director, Writer
Boys On Film presents the tenth volume in the world's most successful short film series. All boundaries will be broken as Boys On Film X promises to t...
The Broken Circle Breakdown
2012
Additional Production Assistant
The loss of their young daughter threatens to destroy the love and faith of two married musicians.
Headlong
2012
Director, Writer
On the occasion of a dance competition a young ballet dancer is in a foreign place. Alone in his hotel room loneliness overpowers him, until he meets ...
Skin Of Glass
2012
Editor, Director of Photography, Director
I started from a place on Left Bank where the children of parents who are absent for an unknown period of time (sailors, immigrants) live together, su...
De Lucht in mijn Keel
2012
Writer
'The Air in My Throat' shows a summer day in the life of Elle (12), but what has taken place in the previous months, shimmers through the house. Somet...
Either/Or
2010
Assistant Camera
A serial killer goes out in a regular day to do errands, which include, find his next victim.
Julian
N/A
Producer
Fleur and her wife Julian plan to marry in the 22 countries where they are legally allowed. After their fourth marriage, their journey is interrupted ...
Coward
N/A
Director, Screenplay