Fjord Wins Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival.
Fjord was directed by Cristian Mungiu.
Cannes, France, May 23 (EFE).
Fjord, directed by Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu, starring Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan, won the Palme d’Or at the 79th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.
Fjord chronicles the legal ordeal of a Romanian-Norwegian couple, played by Reinsve and Stan, and their deeply religious family with five children who settle in a village at the end of a fjord in Norway.
They befriend their neighbors, but when teachers at the children’s school discover bruises on one of the children, the community immediately links the bruises to the children’s ultra-conservative religious upbringing, and the couple loses custody of their children.
Mungiu’s films have won three previous awards at Cannes: “Graduation” won the Best Director award in 2016; “Beyond the Hills” won the awards for Best Screenplay and Best Actress in 2012 (Cosmina Stratan); and “4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days” won the Palme d’Or in 2007.
The other awards handed out on Saturday were: Grand Prize: Minotaur, by Andrei Zvyagintsev; Joint Best Director Award: Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo for La Bola Negra and Pawel Pawlikowski for Fatherland.
The Best Screenplay Award went to Emmanuel Marre for Notre salut. The Jury Prize went to Valeska Grisebach for The Dreamed Adventure.
The Best Actress Award went to Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto for Soudain, and the Best Actor to Emmanuel Machia and Valentin Campagne for Coward.
The Golden Camera for Best Debut Feature went to Ben’Imana, by Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo, and the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film went to For the opponents, by Federico Luis. EFE agf-ngp/mcd
