Film about the marriage of American stripper and son of Russian oligarch wins the highest award in Cannes. Photo

Anora, a film by American director Sean Baker, has won the Palme d'Or, the top award at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. The winners were announced on May 25.

The winners are announced on the festival's website. It is worth noting that the film's plot is about the marriage of an American stripper and the son of a Russian oligarch.

The Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival has been awarded to the film Anora, starring Russian actors Yuri Borisov and Mark Edelstein. The film also features other actors from the aggressor country, namely Alexey Serebryakov and Daria Ekamasova.

Other winners of the competition:

- Best Screenplay - "The Substance," Coralie Fargeat

- Best Actress - The Ensemble of "Emilia Pérez"

- Best Actor - Jesse Plemons, "Kinds of Kindness"

- Best Director - Miguel Gomes, "Grand Tour"

- Grand Prix - "All We Imagine as Light"

- Jury Prize - "Emilia Pérez"

- Special Jury Prize - "The Seed of the Sacred Fig," Mohammed Rasoulof

- Honorary Palme d'Or for contribution to the development of cinema was awarded to actress Meryl Streep, Hayao Miyazaki's Ghibli Studio and director George Lucas.

Iranian filmmaker Mohammed Rasoulof, who escaped from prison and whipping in his homeland, has won a special jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his story "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" about a judicial investigator whose family life is destroyed during anti-government protests.

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