Anora, directed by Sean Baker and winner of the Palme d’Or in Cannes, will premiere at this year’s edition of the Stockholm Film Festival, November 6-17. The internationally acclaimed drama-comedy will be shown at Bio Skandia, November 6th.
A sex worker from Brooklyn, Anora, impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch. When his parents learn that their son has married, a campaign is launched to have the marriage annulled. Anora can be described as a modern reinterpretation of “Pretty Woman”. Dirty American social realism decorated with grand sparkling luxury and dipped in sour screwball comedy.
“It is a fairy tale dream come true. Until it isn’t” is how director Sean Baker describes this year’s opening film, about a young sex worker from Brooklyn who gets an offer she can’t refuse.
Sean Baker’s films, of which Tangerine and The Florida Project have been shown at the Stockholm Film Festival, examine marginalised groups in general and the everyday life of sex workers in particular. With his eighth feature film, the indie humanist and filmmaker Sean Baker proves that he is one of the most skilled contemporary portrayers of the modern working class in the United States. Anora is a deeply moving saga of how the American dream collides with the reality of immigrants – a wild odyssey between strip clubs and Vegas suites that is the film event of the year on the big screen!
