Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, this year’s Palme d’Or winner with Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, reaches the Royal Festival Hall as a London Film Festival gala.
Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, this year’s Palme d’Or winner, has its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank on Saturday 17 October 2026. Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve play its couple.
Mungiu was born in Iași in 1968. He worked as a teacher and a journalist before training as a director in Bucharest.
His second feature, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, won the Palme d’Or in 2007, the first for a Romanian filmmaker. Fjord made him the tenth filmmaker to win it twice.
The film follows an evangelical family who move to a small Norwegian town. Their new life breaks apart when suspicions about their children’s wellbeing place the parents under scrutiny. Mungiu wrote the screenplay himself.
The afternoon gala is the film’s one screening in the hall, with a second date at Vue West End the following evening. Picturehouse Entertainment then releases it in British cinemas.
Lisa Carlehed joins Stan and Reinsve in the cast, and the film plays in Norwegian, English, Swedish and Romanian.