Cristian Mungiu, center, accepts the Palme d’Or at Cannes on Saturday, alongside Renate Reinsve, Sebastian Stan, and Tilda Swinton.
The 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival concluded on Saturday, May 23, at the Grand Theatre Lumiere, with Cristian Mungiu's Fjord winning the Palme d'Or and Andreï Zvyagintsev's Minotaur receiving the Grand Prix.
Mungiu claimed his second Palme d'Or nineteen years after his first.
This year’s Cannes jury president, South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, addressed the relationship between politics and cinema during the festival’s opening press conference.
Park, internationally recognised for Oldboy, argued that films cannot be separated from political realities, noting that art has always reflected the social conditions of its time.
