Anora

Sean Baker returns with his Cannes Palme d’Or winning drama, starring Mikey Madison in a breakthrough performance as a young sex worker who falls for a Russian heir. 

At the club where she dances, Ani meets Vanya, a spoilt son of a Russian oligarch who splashes his parents' cash whilst charming Ani with his innocence. As the two connect outside the club, he introduces her to a lavish lifestyle resulting in a whirlwind marriage. But when news gets back to his parents of their son’s new wife, their disapproval sets in motion a dizzying adventure that’s fiercely entertaining yet heartbreaking in equal measure. Continuing Baker’s themes of highlighting the lives and work of marginalised people, Anora is a raucous tragicomedy that refuses to judge its subjects. 

"Anora is boundlessly alive with a quality we’ve seen continually in the movies of Sean Baker, among the most humanist filmmakers working today. There is joy next to sadness. There is comedy inside a tragedy." - Tomris Laffly, Roger Ebert