Hear from IndieWire staffers and contributors about the best of the fest, from Palme d'Or winner "Fjord" to "Paper Tiger." With the 2026 Cannes Film Festival in the rearview, let’s look at IndieWire’s favorite movies of the festival beyond simply what won the awards. To refresh, Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord” won the Palme d’Or , and that film, starring Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan as religious fundamentalists who emigrate from Romania to Norway and meet progressive persecution, did make