Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland finished top of Screen International’s 2026 Cannes jury grid with a score of 3.3.
The final two films to hit the grid were Valeska Grisebach’s The Dreamed Adventure, scoring 3.1, and Lea Mysius’ The Birthday Party, earning a 1.1 average, meaning it finished bottom of the grid.
See the final grid below:
The Dreamed Adventure, the latest from German filmmaker Grisebach, is set in the remote border region of Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, and follows a woman who becomes entangled in an illegal trade after helping out an old acquaintance.
It scored a strong 3.1, enough for joint third place alongside Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All Of A Sudden. It earned four four-stars (excellent), three three-stars (good), but a trio of two-stars (average) prevented it from unseating Fatherland as the grid winner.
Home invasion thriller The Birthday Party is Mysius’ return to the Croisette after her debut feature Ava premiered in Critics’ Week in 2017 and The Five Devils played Directors’ Fortnight in 2022. Hafsia Herzi and Monica Bellucci star.
Three X’s (bad) from Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus, Rogerebert.com’s Ben Kenigsberg and Bangkok Post’s Kong Rithdee ensured the film finished bottom of the 2026 grid (with The Telegraph unable to provide a score), behind Hirokazu Koreeda’s Sheep In The Box with its score of 1.3.
With 3.3, black-and-white literary drama Fatherland finished just ahead of Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur, on 3.2. Both scores would have been enough to top last year’s grid, which was jointly won by Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors and Jafar Panahi’s eventual Palme d’Or winner It Was Just An Accident – both on 3.1.
The highest score ever on the grid remains Lee Chang-Dong’s Burning from 2018 with 3.8, whilst the lowest score is still Sean Penn’s The Last Face, which got just 0.2 in 2016.
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