Anora is a 2024 romantic drama written and directed by Sean Baker, the filmmaker behind Tangerine and The Florida Project. Shot on location in Brooklyn and Las Vegas, the film is Baker's most ambitious production to date — a work that blends screwball comedy, romantic fantasy, and hard-edged social realism into a story about ambition, exploitation, and the limits of the American dream as experienced by those closest to its margins.

The film stars Mikey Madison as Ani, a young sex worker at a New York City strip club who falls into a whirlwind romance with Ivan (Yura Borisov), the son of a Russian oligarch living carelessly in New York on his family's limitless wealth. When their impulsive Las Vegas wedding triggers the intervention of Ivan's family — who dispatch associates to have the marriage annulled before word reaches his powerful parents — Ani fights furiously and desperately to preserve the life she believed she had finally secured. The cast includes Karren Karagulian and Vache Tovmasyan in scene-stealing supporting turns as the family's emissaries.

Anora became the defining film of 2024, winning the Palme d'Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival and going on to win five Academy Awards at the 2025 Oscars — including Best Picture, Best Director for Baker, and Best Actress for Mikey Madison. Critics celebrated Baker's characteristic ability to find grace in characters mainstream cinema overlooks, and Madison's fearless, physically committed performance as a young woman who refuses to accept that her story is over before it starts.