‘Fjord’ by Romanian Cristian Mungiu has won Cannes’ top awards | Movie News

This is the second time that Romanian director Cristian Mungiu has won the prestigious Palme d’Or award.

Fjord, a heartwarming drama about a Christian family in Norway from Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, has won the best film award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Mungiu won his second Palme d’Or award at a star-studded ceremony at the festival on Saturday.

The play by Sebastian Stan and Renate ⁠Reinsve is about the conflict of values ​​that occurs when a religious family moves from Romania to a village in Norway.

It tells the story of preachers who immigrated to Norway, but soon their children were taken from them by child labor for beating them. Mungiu said: “From there one rots another rots another.”

The film is based on real events and is notable for its push towards the progressive Norwegian society depicted in the film, as well as the child support system.

“This is a message about tolerance, inclusion, and compassion. These are very good values ​​that we all hold dear, but we must practice them more often,” Mungiu told the audience.

Mungiu became only the 10th filmmaker to win the Palme d’Or twice. Wake, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a drama about abortion in Romania, won an award in 2007.

The Russian war drama Minotaur, written by Andrey Zvyagintsev, which portrays a reckless businessman caught up in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, won the second Grand Prix award.

“To end the genocide, the whole world is waiting,” Zvyagintsev, who now lives in exile in France, told the audience in a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Belgium’s Virginie Efira and Japanese actor Tao Okamoto shared the best actress award for their roles in the nursing home drama All of a Sudden, written by Japan’s Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

Belgian duo Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne from the gay World War drama Coward shared the best actor award for their roles in the movie directed by Lukas Dhont.

Rwandan filmmaker Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo won the Camera d’Or for best first film for her murder drama, Ben’Imana, which she dedicated to “the women of my country”.