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THE HUNT (JAGTEN)d. Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark, 19 JULY 20:00 MUSGRAVE A; 23 JULY 17:30 SUNCOAST c;201228 JULY 16:30 MUSGRAVE AThis latest film from Thomas Vinterberg is a remarkably precise account of a man falselyaccused of child abuse. Lucas lives a lonely life, still recovering from his divorce. His life slowlygets better as he finds love, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an impulsivelie which spirals violently out of control and sends the small community in which he lives intoa state of collective hysteria. As the lie spreads and grows, Lucas is forced to fight a lonely fightfor his life and dignity. The Hunt won Mads Mikkelsen the Best Actor Award at Cannes last year.African Premiere.Danish with English subtitles, 111 minTHE LAND OF HOPE (KIBÔ NO KUNI)d. Sion Sono, Japan, United20 JULY 13:30 MUSGRAVE A; 26 JULY 19:00 MUSGRAVE B;Kingdom, Taiwan, Germany, 2012 28 JULY 19:00 SUNCOAST BThe Onos and Suzukis are neighbours in a backwater town in a fictional Nagashimaprefecture in Japan whose routine lives are short-circuited by a nuclear meltdowntriggered by an earthquake. The Suzukis are abruptly evacuated to a shelter but, in anarrative twist that exposes the absurdity of the government’s arbitrary policies, the Onosare left alone because their home lies inches outside the danger-zone’s 20-kilometreradius. The first fully fictional cinematic depiction of Japan in the aftermath of theFukushima nuclear disaster, The Land of Hope courageously cuts to the quick with thismoving story of the experiences of two families. African Premiere.Japanese with English subtitles, 134 minTHE LOOK OF LOVEd. Michael Winterbottom, United21 JULY 12:00 SUNCOAST B; 28 JULY 12:00 SUNCOAST AKingdom, United States, 2013This latest film from prodigious DIFF regular Michael Winterbottom, tells the outrageoustrue story of British porn baron and property tycoon Paul Raymond, who was namedBritain’s richest person in the early 1990s. Steve Coogan provides a remarkable centralperformance, presenting Raymond in all of his complexity, a man who is both admirableand deplorable and who is forced to deal with seeing his daughter fall apart under theinfluence of drugs. Set against the tatty glamour and shallowness of the porn world, anddirected with immaculate precision by Winterbottom, The Look of Love is devastatingproof that money can’t buy happiness. African Premiere.English, 101 min34th Durban International Film Festival 71