The announcement of the Ministry of Culture after Mungiu's film was awarded the Palme d'Or: “Fjord” will be included in the list

The Ministry of Culture introduced the film “Fjord”, recently awarded the Palme d'Or trophy at the Cannes Film Festival, to the list of strategic cultural projects to benefit from the financing of the Oscar Awards campaign.

“Upon the arrival in the country of the winner of the Palme d'Or award (Cristian Mungiu, no), the Ministry of Culture completes the list of strategic cultural projects in order to ensure the funding framework for the campaign for the Oscar awards (an old practice of one of Romania's most effective soft power tools). Thus, the Order of the Minister of Culture with no. 2621 of March 26 is completed by including the support of the film “Fjord” in the competition for the Oscar awards, within the paragraph on cultural diplomacy projects”, announced on Sunday, in a post on Facebook, the interim Minister of Culture, Demeter András István.

Romanian director Cristian Mungiu won the prestigious Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday evening for “Fjord”, the film that tells a story that took place in Norway, the story of a family of Romanian migrants.

The feature film “Fjord” is a film about the difficulty of understanding someone who thinks differently, a story about polarization, about the inability to dialogue, about the things that separate people and those that still hold them together, reports the official website of the event, according to Agerpres.

Mungiu received the Palme d'Or award for the second time in his career. For the first time, he received the big trophy at Cannes in 2007, for the film “4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days”, a painful description of the story of “compulsory” births under Romanian communism. Mungiu thus became the 10th filmmaker in the history of the Cannes Festival to win the coveted Palme d'Or trophy twice.