Winner: Palme d’Or, 2024 Cannes Film Festival

Sean Baker (THE FLORIDA PROJECT, TANGERINE, RED ROCKET) returns with his with his latest film, the slyly comedic, neon-lit ANORA, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2024. Anora (Mikey Madison in an award-worthy performance), a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch (Mark Eydelshteyn). Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

“There are few filmmakers as open-hearted, as stone-soup inventive, as Baker is. In movies like TANGERINE and THE FLORIDA PROJECT, he’s always shown a knack for doing a lot with a little. But with ANORA, so playful yet so emotionally fine-grained, he maybe does the most. It’s his best movie yet.” —Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine

“This star-making turn by Mikey Madison is deserving of the praise she has already generated in this Palme d’Or-winning gem… This heroic journey is Ani’s story through and through. It’s a brilliant role, written with such range that it takes Madison’s strong performance to bring her to life without succumbing to archness. She makes us believe every second….”  —Jason Gorber, The A.V. Club

“Splenetically hilarious for more than two hours before reality catches up with it in the film’s unforgettable final scene, ANORAhas next to nothing to do with romance, and almost everything to do with the kind of working-class heartache that a modern Hollywood studio would never even try to get right.” —David Ehrlich, IndieWire