Lukas Dhont on his acclaimed film Girl, about the trans girl who is an ordinary adolescent, and the love of dance

Lukas Dhont's father wanted his son to join the scouts. But playing in the mud with other children did not appeal to Lukas. He preferred singing and dancing. He was confused to discover that people saw that as girl stuff. When he was eighteen, and just entering film school in Ghent, he read a newspaper article about a girl born in a boy's body. She wanted to be a ballerina, but was not allowed at school to move from boys' to girls' classes. That theme never left Dhont.

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