“Anora”, the new movie by Sean Baker, is tipped as one of the favorites to win Best Picture at the Oscars this year. The film follows a young sex worker in New York who gets romantically involved with the son of a Russian oligarch. It has chalked up several Oscar nominations, including a best supporting actor nod for Russian actor Yura Borisov. Not everyone in Russia is celebrating, though, as The World’s Europe Correspondent Orla Barry explains.
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