Neon’s Palme d’Or Winner ‘Fjord’ Sets October Release Date (EXCLUSIVE)

“Fjord,” a searing family drama that won the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, will hit theaters in the fall.

Neon, which acquired the movie a year ago, has slated “Fjord” for Oct. 9, the same release date as the studio’s prior Palme winners including “Parasite,” “Anora” and “Anatomy of a Fall.” All of those films went on to score Oscar nominations, with “Parasite” and “Anora” landing the statue for best picture.

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Directed by Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu, “Fjord” stars Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as the parents of a Romanian family with strict religious beliefs who move to a small village in Norway. When bruises are noticed on their daughter’s body at school, their five children are taken away from them and a legal saga ensues. Variety’s Guy Lodge called the film a “brilliantly knotted social drama, writing that “everything is happening at all times in ‘Fjord,’ as befits a film sharply attuned to the world’s ever-expanding possibilities for movement, misunderstanding and conflict.”

Mungiu previously won Cannes’ highest honor, the Palme d’Or, in 2007 with “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” and was later awarded the festival’s best screenplay prize in 2012 for “Beyond the Hills” and the best director prize in 2016 for “Graduation.”

“Fjord” extended a remarkable winning streak for Neon, which has scored a record seven consecutive Palme d’Ors starting with Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” and continuing with Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness,” Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” Sean Baker’s “Anora” and Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident.”