Palme d’Or Prestige: ‘Fjord’ Tops Indie Openers, ‘Naza’ Eyes $500k Surge – Specialty Box Office

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Neon’s Cannes Palme d’Or-winning drama Fjord starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve had a terrific $124k opening on four screens in New York and Los Angeles, as documentary Naza marks a strong week two expansion.

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord is the director’s second Palme d’Or for Mungiu and the seventh consecutive win for Neon. The film also took the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes and is Romania’s Oscar entry for Best International Feature. It follows a devout Romanian Norwegian couple named Gheorghius who resettle in a village in a distant fjord where they become close to their neighbors, the Halbergs. Their children

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