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Full Cannes 2026 Winners List: ‘Fjord’ wins Palme D’Or

24 May 2026 01:53 (UTC +04:00)

Cristian Mungiu’s drama Fjord, starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, has won the Palme d’Or at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, APA reports.

The Romanian director, who previously scooped the festival’s prize with 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, is the tenth director to win the coveted award twice.

Stan and Reinsve star as a mixed Romanian and Norwegian couple who move to the fjord village where the wife was born with their children. Their planned new life does not go to plan when they come up against a couple with a very different outlook on life.

Deadline’s review praised the picture as a “fiercely intelligent and gripping movie that finds its power in providing no easy answer.”

In other the other awards, Russian director Andreï Zviaguintsev’s Minotaur scooped the Grand Prize.

Directorial duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi and Paweł Pawlikowski jointly won the Best Director Prize for La Bola Negra and Fatherland respectively. German director Valeska Grisebach Bulgaria-set dramaThe Dreamed Adventure won the Jury Prize.

Virginie Efira and Tao Okamot jointly scooped the Best Actress award for their performance in All Of A Sudden, while Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagneshare, stars of Lukas Dhont’s World War One drama Coward, shared the Best Actor Award.

The Best Screenplay was clinched by Emmanuel Marre for A Man Of His Time (Notre Salut), exploring questions of resistance and collaboration in France in the early days of World War Two.