Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning ‘Anora’ to shut MAMI Mumbai Movie Pageant

Director Sean Baker, Palme d’Or award winner for the movie “Anora”, poses throughout a photocall after the closing ceremony of the 77th Cannes Movie Pageant in Cannes, France, Might 25, 2024.
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Sean Baker’s Anora, which received the distinguished Palme d’Or at this yr’s Cannes Movie Pageant, would be the closing movie of the MAMI Mumbai Movie Pageant, to be held in Mumbai from October 19 to October 24, 2024.

The MAMI screening will mark the movie’s South Asian premiere.

Baker’s newest narrates the story of Ani (Mikey Madison), a Brooklyn intercourse employee who will get combined up with the Russian mafia. Baker, who served as the top of jury for the Worldwide Competitors part at MAMI in 2018, his recognized for his empathetic, pathbreaking movies exploring marginalised identities, as in Tangerine and The Florida Venture.

Anu Rangachar, Head of Worldwide Programming at MAMI, stated in a press release, “It’s a becoming tribute to shut the pageant with considered one of MAMI’s most cherished alumni Sean Baker’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anora – a searing critique on wealth, privilege and the American dream, dropped at life by Mickey Madison’s luminous efficiency.”

This yr’s version of MAMI will function 110 movies from over 45 international locations. Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Subsequent Door, Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance are a few of this yr’s worldwide picks.