Anora is the new film from director Sean Baker (Tangerine, The Florida Project, Red Rocket).
Ani is a young Uzbek-American stripper from Brighton Beach, a Russophone enclave in New York City. As she is somewhat conversant in Russian, her boss fixes her up with Russian-speaking clients. After meeting Vanya, the son of a Russian oligarch, a romance kindles that leads to their elopement. Their fairytale marriage is threatened when the man's parents travel to New York to force an annulment.
It stars Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yuriy Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Ivy Wolk and Luna Sofia Miranda.
The film premiered on 21st May 2024, in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or, the first American film to do so since 2011's The Tree of Life.
Drew Daniels was director of photography and shot the feature on 35mm film. Baker also produces Anora along with Alex Coco and Samantha Quan.
Neon will release Anora in the US on 18th October 2024. Universal Pictures will release the film in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 1st November 2024.
Ani is a young Uzbek-American stripper from Brighton Beach, a Russophone enclave in New York City. As she is somewhat conversant in Russian, her boss fixes her up with Russian-speaking clients. After meeting Vanya, the son of a Russian oligarch, a romance kindles that leads to their elopement. Their fairytale marriage is threatened when the man's parents travel to New York to force an annulment.
It stars Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yuriy Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Ivy Wolk and Luna Sofia Miranda.
The film premiered on 21st May 2024, in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or, the first American film to do so since 2011's The Tree of Life.
Drew Daniels was director of photography and shot the feature on 35mm film. Baker also produces Anora along with Alex Coco and Samantha Quan.
Neon will release Anora in the US on 18th October 2024. Universal Pictures will release the film in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 1st November 2024.
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Short filmTranscript
00:00What is that? Is that a butterfly?
00:03I'll just sit right next to you.
00:04You're right here.
00:05You're so classy.
00:06I can build you a belt.
00:07A money belt?
00:09I got dollar signs like a real hoe.
00:11No, but you're manifesting with those.
00:17I got a kid who wants someone who speaks Russian.
00:19She's gonna take care of everything you need?
00:21God bless America.
00:26Not too shabby.
00:27What do you do to get all of this?
00:28I'm a really big drug dealer.
00:30Oh, really?
00:32Why do you trust me?
00:34No.
00:39If I get married to an American, I wouldn't have to go back to Russia.
00:43You want me to be your little wifey?
00:45I'm serious.
00:47Three carrots?
00:48What about four or five or six?
00:53I give it two weeks, bitch.
00:55I'm just gonna go chill in my mansion or whatever.
00:59What the hell are you doing?
01:00You can't do this to me.
01:01Did you dream about some whore?
01:03What?
01:04This is not a real marriage.
01:06We're getting an old and you have no say in it.
01:15Your life will be destroyed.
01:20I need you to help find Ivan.
01:22Fine.
01:29I am Ivan's wife!
01:36I like Nora.
01:38She's a good man.