The jury of the 79th Cannes Film Festival today honored Romanian director Christian Mungiu‘s film “Fjiord” with the Palm of Gold.
Thus, Christian Mungiu won his second Palme d’Or after the one he was awarded in 2007 for his film “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”.
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s complex moral drama “Fjord,” starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, won the Palme d’Or for best film at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, making the Romanian director the tenth filmmaker to win the coveted prize twice – 19 years after his first win for “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.”
Exiled Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, with his anti-Putin drama “Minotaur,” won the Grand Prix, the second most prestigious award, while the other awards in the competition section went to “Fatherland”, “The Black Ball”, “The Dreamed Adventure”, “Coward”, “All of a Sudden” and “A Man of His Time”.
