Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or Winner ‘Fjord’ Takes Jakarta World Cinema Audience Award as Short Film Winners Land Debut Feature Funding

Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord”, which won the Palme d’Or and opened Jakarta World Cinema, received the festival’s audience award as the eight-day event closed. The festival also awarded three Indonesian short-film directors full funding to make and distribute their debut features, supporting new local filmmakers.

More than 25,000 people attended screenings at CGV Grand Indonesia. The KlikFilm competition attracted over 300 shorts submitted between April and July; its jury named Jusuf Witjaksono’s “Karim” the winner, with Adam Hasyim Al Raschid’s “Air Pangea” and Ali Yafie Muzaki’s “The Grave of Dreams” as runners-up. Zaky Alfawwaz’s “Callsh#t” won the short-film audience award, while Michael Juan Saptayada’s “OTW” received the Special Jury Prize.