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"I don't want to be an 'example' - I want to be a girl", answers Lara to her father, when he congratulates on her exemplary behavior. Lara, a 15-year-old transgender girl who aspires to be a professional dancer, moves in with her father and little brother to attend a renowned ballet academy. She is at a critical moment: in the middle of puberty, with the upcoming test in the most prestigious ballet school in Belgium and on full hormonal treatment.

In 2009, Dhont read a newspaper article about Nora Monsecour, a Belgian transgender dancer. The young director immediately offered to make a documentary about her life, but she refused. However, Monsecour was very involved in the casting and shooting of the film. 

Girl, Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, is Lukas Dhont's first feature film after his three previous short films on stories of young people in crisis. It is also the discovery of the talented Victor Polster as an actor.

2018: Festival de Cannes: “Un Certain Regard” - Prémio Melhor Actor Victor Polster 
2018: Festival de Cannes: Prémio FIPRESCI
2018: Festival de Cannes: Câmera de Ouro - Lukas Dhont
2018: European Film Awards: Melhor Descoberta Europeia

Parado no tempo, um trio de personagens pré-históricos habita ao redor de uma anta. Um deles, hiperativo, tenta despertar emoções aos seus companheiros, através de invenções e obras de arte. Um estranho objeto em osso, que reenquadra a realidade, vai despoletar a cobiça e a inveja entre eles.
Alegoria em Super 8, sobre Portugal e o comportamento colectivo do seu povo.

A journey around Lisbon’s suburbs through the lives of a handful of musicians. Different generations and backgrounds meet, Angola to São Tomé, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau represented by old-school musicians and young producers.

IndieLisboa 2019: Prémio Melhor Filme IndieMusic

The Witches or Witchcraft Through (the Ages is a 1922 Swedish-Danish documentary-style silent horror film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Based partly on Christensen's study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan is a study of how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and mental illness could lead to the hysteria of the witch-hunts. The film was made as a documentary but contains dramatised sequences that are comparable to horror films.

Home for the holidays with nothing to do, Margaret and Henry, two old high school friends, get in over their heads when trying to solve a kidnapping. A hilarious road movie propelled by alcohol, drugs, violence and, above all, by the desire to remain young.

IndieLisboa 2019 - Nomeado para o Grande Prémio da Cidade de Lisboa
Festival Internacional de Cinema de Roterdão 2019 - Nomeado para Best First Film
Festival de Cinema Slamdance 2019 - Nomeado para o Grande Prémio do Júri 

In the late 1990s, photographer Bruce Weber convinced Robert Mitchum to appear before his camera for a filmed portrait, shot in 35 and 16mm black and white film. They hang out with friends in restaurants and hotel rooms and record a never finished music album.

Festival de Cinema de Veneza 2018 - Nomeado para melhor documentário

An archeologist travels to the Canary Islands’ cave dwellings as part of his quest to discover the remains of the indigenous inhabitants of the island. An essay film, composed of archival footage, on the complex map of power that constructs historical discourse.

Estreia Mundial no IndieLisboa
IndieLisboa 2019 - Grande Prémio de Longa Metragem 

A fisherman without a boat is infuriated with his brother who is using the family vessel for day-tripping, and resents the tourists flocking to the village while locals are relegated to a sink estate on the hill. “Bait” was shot on B&W 16mm film and processed by hand.

Audience Award for best feature film