Fjord

Winner of Palme d'Or & FIPRESCI Prize

Competition - Cristian Mungiu: Cannes Film Festival 2026

The Gheorghius, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, resettle in a village set in a distant fjord where they become close to their neighbors, the Halbergs. Their children bond despite their different education. When adolescent Elia Gheorghiu shows up at school with some bruises on her body, the community asks itself if the traditional education that the Gheorghiu children get from their parents would have anything to do with it.

"Our uncertainty is only fed by the immaculate restraint and simmering intensity of Stan’s and Reinsve’s performances, from which every hint of movie-star glamour has been methodically purged." - The New Yorker

"[Mihai] is never going to blend seamlessly into the overall culture of the town he has been trying to make his own. What Fjord asks, in ways that are sincere and complicated, is how much that matters to his living there." - New York Magazine / Vulture