According to Variety, Fjord is on its way to be eligible without a country’s submission to run in the Oscars for the international feature film category. The film earned a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Festival and had dialogue in English, Norwegian, Swedish and Romanian. However, the film would still need to meet other requirements and be nominated by Romania or Norway to be an official selection.

A film doesn’t even need a country’s recommendation as long as it wins an award at the following film festivals: the Best Film Award at Busan, the Golden Bear at Berlin, the Golden Lion at Venice, the Palme d’Or at Cannes, the Platform Award at Toronto and the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.

Fjord stars Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World, Sentimental Value), Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice, Captain America: The Winter Soldier), Lisa Loven Kongsli (Force Majeure, Giraffe), Ellen Dorrit Petersen (Armand, Blind), Lisa Carlehed (The Emigrants, Quisling) and Guilia Nahmany (Love by Design, High Strung Free Design). The film was written and directed by Cristian Mungiu (Beyond The Hills, Graduation).

The film centers around Stan and Reinave’s character’s relationship as a conservative couple who relocate to Reinsve’s Norwegian hometown that is more progressive than they would live who’s children were taken from them as they are further investigated.

Neon is in charge of the project and will release Fjord in theaters October 9.