Cannes Film Festival: Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord wins Palme d’Or

May 26, 2026

The Jury of the 79th Festival de Cannes, chaired by South Korean director, screenwriter and producer Park Chan-wook, surrounded by American actress and producer Demi Moore, Irish-Ethiopian actress and producer Ruth Negga, Belgian director and screenwriter Laura Wandel, Chinese director and screenwriter Chloé Zhao, Chilean director and screenwriter Diego Céspedes, Ivorian-American actor Isaach De Bankolé, Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty , and Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård, presented its winners’ list among the 22 films presented in Competition this year. 

 The full winners list is as follows… 

Competition 

 Palme d’Or - Fjord, dir. Cristian Mungiu, cin, Tudor Vladimir Panduru RSC Grand Prix - Minotaur, dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev, cin. Mikhail Krichman 

Best director, ex-aequo – Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi for The Black Ball (cin.
Gris Jordana AEC); Pawel Pawlikowski for Fatherland (Łukasz Żal  PSC) 

 Jury Prize - The Dreamed Adventure, dir. Valeska Grisebach, cin. Bernhard Keller  

 Best actress – Tao Okamoto, Virginie Efira for All Of A Sudden 

 Best screenplay – Emmanuel Marre for A Man Of His Time 

 Best actor – Emmanuel Macchia, Valentin Campagne for Coward 

 Camera d’Or for best first feature film 

Camera d’Or - Ben’Imana, dir. Marie Clementine Dusabejambo 

 Short films competition 

Short Film Palme d’Or - For The Opponents, dir. Federico Luis