Sean Baker’s Cannes Winner ‘Anora’ to Open Stockholm Film Festival

Sean Baker‘s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anora will open this 12 months’s Stockholm Movie Competition, organizers mentioned Tuesday.

Scream and As soon as Upon A Time…In Hollywood actress Mikey Madison stars because the titular character within the screwball dramedy, enjoying a intercourse employee in Brighton Seaside, Brooklyn, who will get combined up with the son of a Russian oligarch.

Anora premiered in competitors on the Cannes Movie Competition, the place it took the highest prize for greatest movie. Baker has been touring the competition circuit with the function, screening Anora at Telluride, Toronto and the San Sebastián movie festivals.

The Hollywood Reporter‘s competition overview known as out Madison’s efficiency for reward saying she performs Anora “with a sweetness that humanizes even probably the most transactional conditions and a defensiveness that makes her harmful when threatened.”

Anora‘s subsequent cease will likely be Sweden, the place the movie will kick off the 2024 Stockholm Movie Competition on Nov. 6. The thirty fourth annual Stockholm competition runs Nov. 6-17.

Baker is an everyday at Stockholm, having screened his 2015 breakthrough Tangerine and 2017 function The Florida Mission on the competition. In an announcement, the Stockholm competition famous how the connection between these options and Anora. All of them “look at marginalized teams basically and the on a regular basis lifetime of intercourse employees specifically. Along with his eighth function movie, the indie humanist and filmmaker Sean Baker proves that he is among the most expert up to date portrayers of the fashionable working class in america.”

Neon has Anora for the U.S. and is planning an October 18 launch.