Palme d'Or winner 'Fjord' to open Jakarta World Cinema 2026
The Palme d'Or winner Fjord will open Jakarta World Cinema 2026. Banjong Pisanthanakun's Inherit will close it in what will be its Indonesian premiere, Variety reported on 1 Oct. 2026.
Fjord is a Norway-set drama about political polarisation from Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, AP News reported. It took the Palme d'Or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, at the 79th edition in May. The win was Mungiu's second Palme d'Or, Reuters reported.
The scale is large. This year's edition lists 207 titles from 69 countries. Of those, 120 have won awards at major festivals, 96 are Asian cinema titles and 41 were directed by women. Twenty are official entries for the international feature category at the 99th Academy Awards.
The programme leans heavily on festival prizewinners. May el-Toukhy's Woman Unknown, winner of the Golden Lion, the top prize at Venice, will screen alongside Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's NAZA, winner of the Venice Special Jury Prize. The lineup also includes Andrey Zvyagintsev's Minotaur, winner of the Cannes Grand Prix, the festival's second prize, and Hamaguchi Ryusuke's All of a Sudden, recognised with a best actress prize at Cannes.
Jesse Eisenberg's directorial film The Debut is also on the slate. Ilker Çatak's Yellow Letters, winner of the Golden Bear, the top prize at Berlin, is booked for the online programme.
Fjord cinematographer Tudor Vladimir Panduru will attend the festival and lead a masterclass. The main eight-day run takes place at CGV Grand Indonesia from 31 Oct. to 7 Nov.
For the first time, the festival will expand outside Jakarta. Eight-day editions will follow at CGV Paris Van Java in Bandung and Cinepolis Malang Town Square in Malang from 14 to 21 Nov. An online selection will stream via KlikFilm from 31 Oct. to 21 Nov.
What makes this stand out is reach. Audiences in three cities get the in-person programme, while viewers elsewhere in Indonesia can join online. For fans, this means the opening and closing titles sit inside a much wider menu of recent award winners and Oscar entries.
