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

Senior reporter – Soyeb Sikder, Dhaka, Bangladesh –

Sean Baker‘s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anora will open this year’s Stockholm Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday.

Scream and Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood actress Mikey Madison stars as the titular character in the screwball dramedy, playing a sex worker in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, who gets mixed up with the son of a Russian oligarch.

Anora premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where it took the top prize for best film. Baker has been touring the festival circuit with the feature, screening Anora at Telluride, Toronto and the San Sebastián film festivals.