{"id":9708,"date":"2026-04-09T11:01:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=9708"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:01:52","slug":"romanian-director-cristian-mungius-latest-film-selected-in-cannes-festival-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=9708","title":{"rendered":"Romanian director Cristian Mungiu\u2019s latest film selected in Cannes festival competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fjord<\/em>, the latest feature film by Romanian auteur <strong>Cristian Mungiu<\/strong>, has been selected in the main competition of this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The drama, written, co-produced, and directed by Mungiu, stars Oscar-nominated actors Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve. It is Mungiu\u2019s first English-language feature.<\/p>\n<p>Mungiu\u2019s film will compete alongside productions by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Pawel Pawlikowski, Laszlo Nemes, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Asghar Farhadi, and Pedro Almodovar, among others.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth time Mungiu has had a film in the official selection of the Cannes festival. In 2007, he won the Palme d\u2019Or for the abortion drama <em>4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days<\/em>, which he wrote and directed. He is the first Romanian filmmaker to win the distinction. In 2012, he won the award for Best Screenplay for the film <em>Beyond the Hills<\/em>. In 2016, he won the Best Director award for <em>Graduation<\/em>, a prize he shared with Olivier Assayas, awarded for <em>Personal Shopper<\/em>. His feature <em>RMN<\/em> was also selected in the main competition of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Park Chan-wook will preside over the jury for feature films in competition at the 79th Festival de Cannes. The event takes place from May 12 to May 23.<\/p>\n\n<p>Last year, Neon, the studio behind films such as <em>Anora <\/em>and <em>Parasite<\/em>, purchased distribution rights to <em>Fjord<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/filmspiegel_info\">Denis Makarenko<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fjord, the latest feature film by Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu, has been selected in the main competition of this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival. The drama, written, co-produced, and directed by Mungiu, stars Oscar-nominated actors Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve. It is Mungiu\u2019s first English-language feature. Mungiu\u2019s film will compete alongside productions by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Pawel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}