Ajyal Film Festival 2024

All Films

The Hunt (Jagten)

Contemporary World Cinema

Thomas Vinterberg / Feature Narrative / Denmark / 2012 / 111 min / Unknown / DCP
In Danish / Arabic, English subtitles
Interests: Drama
Gulf Premiere

Synopsis

With ‘The Hunt’, Danish director Thomas Vinterberg returns to the hypocrisies that can underlie community bonds, the sanctity of the family and the innocence of children – themes that vaulted him to international acclaim for 1998’s ‘The Celebration’. Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen, in a shattering performance that earned him the best actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival) is recovering from a messy divorce; he has a new job as a kindergarten teacher, and he is soon to gain custody of his beloved teenage son. Well-liked by the children under his care, the gentle, unassuming man is lifelong friends and hunting buddies with Theo and Bruun. When Theo’s daughter falsely accuses Lucas of inappropriate sexual behaviour, friendships dissolve, rumours and lies spread like wildfire, and Lucas becomes the town pariah. Fear is sometimes more powerful than truth – and a man’s reputation is a small price to pay to keep up appearances.

About the Directors

Thomas Vinterberg was born in Copenhagen in 1969. His second feature, ‘Festen’, made under the rules of the Dogme 95 Manifesto, won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2008. Other films are ‘Last Round’ (short, 1993), ‘The Boy Who Walked Backwards’ (short, 1995), ‘The Biggest Heroes’ (1996), ‘It’s All About Love’ (2003), ‘Dear Wendy’ (2005), ‘A Man Comes Home’ (2007) and ‘Submarino’ (2010).

Credits

Director
Thomas Vinterberg
Screenwriter
Tobias Lindholm, Thomas Vinterberg
Producer
Morten Kaufmann, Sisse Graum Jørgensen
Editor
Anne 0sterud, Janus Billeskov Jansen
Music
Nikolaj Egelund
Cinematographer
Charlotte Bruus Christensen
Cast
Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Lasse Fogelstrøm, Susse Wold, Anne Louise Hassing

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