On May 25, Sean Baker’s Anora won the Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. The award was given out by the competition jury, led by director Greta Gerwig.
The Palme d’Or award honors the best film screened at the festival. According to the Cannes website, the award has been given out for 69 years, dating back to 1955 when Delbert Mann won the award for his film Marty.
Neon, the film’s production company, has won the Palme d’Or five years in a row. These winners include Parasite, Titane, Triangle of Sadness, Anatomy of a Fall, and now Anora.
Baker, known for his films The Florida Project and Tangerine, will have Anora be his 12th film that follows the story of “Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, [who] gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch,” according to Letterboxd.
The film will star Mikey Madison as Anora, as well as Mark Eydelshteyn, Karren Karagulian, and Yuriy Borisov. The film was also written, produced, and edited by Baker.
Anora will be released later this year in theatres.
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