Still from Fjord: a family of six pose together in front of a fjord village with red and white buildings and mountains.

Fjord

146

Minutes

Directed by:

Cristian Mungiu

Starring:

Sebastian Stan Renate Reinsve Lisa Carlehed Henrikke Lund-Olsen Vanessa Ceban Jonathan Ciprian Breazu llen Dorrit Petersen Lisa Loven Kongsli

Synopsis

What happens when religious norms contradict the social ones? This is the central question of Fjord, the Cannes Palme d'Or winner by Cristian Mungiu. He cleverly puts our contemporary biases under the microscope with the help of Mihai (Sebastian Stan) and Lisbet (Renate Reinsve), and their five children. The Gheorghius have only just moved to a small Norwegian town, but the crystal-clear waters of the surrounding fjords conceal the murky reality of how easily polarised our society is. A micro-cosmos of its own, Fjord asks the viewer to take a stand, or the stand, in one crucial courtroom scene.

Still from Fjord: two small figures stand on a wooden jetty over still water, with snow-covered mountains behind.
Still from Fjord: a woman reaches up to a man in glasses in a hallway.
Still from Fjord: a family of six pose together in front of a fjord village with red and white buildings and mountains.
Still from Fjord: a group of people gather around a piano in a warmly lit, wood-panelled room.
Still from Fjord: a man in a grey jacket stands on a snowy shore in front of a fjord and mountains.