The 2026 Cannes Film Festival Grande Prix winner – second only to the Palme d’Or (also screening in this season – see ‘Fjord’ on pg42), sees a high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence unravel, pushing him toward breaking point.
Russia, 2022. Amidst the comfortable trappings of affluence and domesticity, corporate executive Gleb (Dmitriy Mazurov) finds himself under siege on all fronts. At home, he is haunted by suspicions that his increasingly distant wife Galina (Iris Lebedeva) is unfaithful. At work, he contends with a demand from local authorities to draft a quota of employees for the war in Ukraine. A pressure cooker in cinematic form, ‘Minotaur’ uncovers and indicts the heart of societal darkness with searing clarity. Andrey Zvyagintsev (‘Leviathan’) is an indisputable master of current cinema, his peerless twist-laden parable provides intimately drawn performances, stark visual power and a window into the Russian people’s soul-death under Putin. (Subtitles)
France/Latvia 2026 Andrey Zvyagintsev 135m
