The win makes Cristian Mungiu the 10th director to win the Palme d'Or twice, 19 years after his first victory with “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.”
"Fjord" stars Sebastian Stan, who made his name in the Captain America trilogy, as a Romanian IT specialist who decides to move his family of seven to the Norwegian village where his wife, played by "Sentimental Value" standout Renate Reinsve, was born. Cultural differences on child-rearing take an extreme turn when child-protection services become involved, and the divisions reflect a bigger battle between conservative and progressive values.
Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev won the second-place Grand Prix for "Minotaur". The best director prize was shared between Poland's Pawel Pawlikowski for his Thomas Mann drama "Fatherland" and the Spanish duo known as "Los Javis," Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, for the Spanish Civil War epic "The Black Ball."
The female leads of Ryusuke Hamaguchi's touching elder-care drama "All of a Sudden," France's Virginie Efira and Japan's Tao Okamoto, won the best actress award.
Valentin Campagne from France and newcomer Emmanuel Macchia from Belgium jointly received the best actor prize for their roles as World War One soldiers who fall in love in Belgian entry "Coward” directed by Lukas Dhont.
The prize for best screenplay was awarded to Emmanuel Marre for “A Man of His Time”, a French drama about a Nazi collaborator in Vichy France.
Argentinian director Federico Luis received the first prize of the evening as the winner of the Short Film Palme d'Or For “The Opponents”.
Director Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo from Rwanda won the Camera d'Or for the film “Ben'imana”.
Famed US singer and actor Barbra Streisand was given an honorary Palme d'Or in absentia.
