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CANNES 2012. Thomas Vinterberg has always sought new ways to push his artistic limits. Now, 14 years after his Dogme film "The Celebration" took Cannes by storm, the Danish director is bringing another powerful drama to the world’s most prestigious film festival. "The Hunt", about a man wrongly accused who is exposed to the hatred of everyone in his small town, marks a return to the purity of vision he had at the beginning of his career, the director tells Mike Goodridge.

CANNES 2012. She got her start in the industry on a fluke, learned the ropes during the Dogme wave and recently struck out on her own as an independent producer, opening her own company, Toolbox Film. Now Signe Leick Jensen, producer on Bille August's "Marie Krøyer", has been picked to be Denmark's Producer on the Move in Cannes.

STATEMENT. Dare to fail, Martin Strange-Hansen encourages his fellow directors. FILM asked the chairman of the Association of Danish Film Directors, one of the significant players behind-the-scenes, to give his take on the challenges for the European filmmakers right now.

INTERVIEW. Looking to bury politically correct children's films, Christian Dyekjær's "The Bird Chase" proves it's possible to spin a cool film around a bevy of bird nerds chasing rare species.

INTERVIEW. Kaspar Munk's "You & Me Forever" takes us into the intimate corners of teen life. The director discusses his unconventional filmmaking methods that call for a strong intuition, lots of time and freedom.

PROFILE. It has only been five years since Tobias Lindholm graduated as a screenwriter, but he has already established himself as one of the most respected storytellers in Danish cinema. His credits include the international TV series hit "Borgen" and two Thomas Vinterberg films, "Submarino" and Cannes competitor "The Hunt". Lindholm is a big fan of "Pretty Woman", but when he directs his own films, like the upcoming "A Hijacking", he likes to trim all the fat and let the logic of reality rule, as he tells Per Juul Carlsen.

INTERVIEW. Is it okay to portray love as a young girl who doesn 't talk and loves sex? This was one of the questions director Katrine Wiedemann and writer Kim Fupz Aakeson grappled with as they worked on "A Caretaker's Tale", the offbeat, darkly funny story of a world-weary, misanthropic superintendent whose life is transformed when he meets a very young and very lusty woman.

NEW ANIMATION. It's been almost four years since Jan Rahbek won the Nordisk Film & TV Fund's Nordic Talent Pitch. Now he has transformed his winning idea into the animated action-comedy "Marco Macaco". Though a few things have changed along the way, the basic elements remain the same: monkeys, a kitschy exotica universe and a giant robot. FILM spoke with the director about his first feature and his thing for monkeys.