ANORA is a 2024 comedy drama film written, directed and edited by Sean Baker. The film premiered on May 21, 2024 77th Cannes Film Festival on May 24th. 2024, where it won the Palme d'Or, the first American film to do so since 2011's The Tree of Life.
Anora (Mikey Madison), a sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
The full cast includes Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, and Aleksei Serebryakov.
ANORA is set to debut in theaters October 18th, courtesy of Neon. Watch the official trailer below.