Cristian Mungiu's drama 'Fjord,' set in Norway and exploring political polarization, has won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. This marks the director's second win of the prestigious award.

Cristian Mungiu’s Norway-set drama about political polarisation Fjord has won the Palme d’Or, handing the Cannes Film Festival’s top honour for the second time to Mungiu, the Romanian director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. At a 79th Cannes Film Festival that saw few films break out, Fjord found wide admiration for its engrossing tale of what Mungiu called “left-wing fundamentalism”. It stars Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as Romanian Evangelicals who move to Norway, but soon after have...