The pair’s friendship is put to the test when they become teenagers.
When Belgian director Lukas Dhont was, in his own words, “a young queer boy growing up in the Flemish countryside,” he found himself drawing away from his contemporaries out of fear his gestures of friendship might be misinterpreted. “At a certain point I started to fear the intimacy that I shared with other boys, because immediately it was categorised through the lens of sexuality,” he tells Teasers. “I started to push people away more than I wanted to, because of certain norms linked to masculinity.”