The Hunt

A kindergarten teacher in a small Danish village is falsely accused of abusing a child. The community turns. Vinterberg's most controlled film — a study in how quickly collective certainty can form around a lie, and how slowly, if ever, it dissolves. Mads Mikkelsen won Best Actor at Cannes and delivers one of the great performances in contemporary European cinema. The final scene refuses the comfort of resolution. One of the essential Danish films of the last thirty years.