Toronto’s Mongrel Media has acquired the Canadian distribution rights to recent Palme d’Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days from Romanian director Cristian Mungiu.

The drama, which took home the top prize at the Cannes film festival Sunday, is about a girl seeking an illegal abortion near the end of the Communist era in Romania. The critics’ darling beat out films from established directors including the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men and Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof.

Mongrel is also handling Cannes jury prize winner Persepolis, a black-and-white animation from French directors Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, about the coming-of-age of a nine-year-old girl that begins in Iran during the Islamic revolution.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days — which is the third Palme d’Or winner handled by Mongrel following Taste of Cherry (1997) and L’enfant (2005) — and Persepolis are scheduled to open in Canada later this year.