May 23, 2026 11:11am PT
Romanian Director Cristian Mungiu Wins His Second Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival for ‘Fjord’
Distributor Neon carries the top prize at the festival for the seventh year running, while other prizewinners include 'Minotaur,' 'Fatherland' and 'The Black Ball'
Cristian Mungiu‘s complex moral drama “Fjord,” starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, has won the Palme d’Or for best film at the Cannes Film Festival, making the Romanian writer-director the tenth filmmaker to win the coveted award twice — 19 years after his first victory for “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.” The film, about a Romanian family of Evangelical Christians mired in a child abuse case when they run afoul of the Norwegian social system, was among the more hotly debated titles in the Competition, with critics split on its merits and its sociopolitical allegiances — though evidently that very discussability united a jury headed by South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook.
Source: variety.com