OSCAR® NOMINEE CLOSE WINS BIG AT THE ENSORS

Lukas Dhont’s Close was the big winner at the Ensors Ceremony, the Flemish speaking Academy Awards® equivalents.

Close, which is nominated for the Oscar® for Best International Feature and France’s César® for Best Foreign Film, took home six Ensor statuettes: Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay (Angelo Tijssens and Lukas Dhont), Best Performance (Eden Dambrine), Best D.O.P (Frank van den Eeden) and Best Sound (Yanna Soentjens and Vincent Sinceretti)

Close had already won several awards, including the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is released by A24 in the US, Diaphana in France, MUBI in the UK and Ireland (release: 3 March) and Lumière in Benelux, with The Match Factory representing international sales.