Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Guests Expected
Director Anna Hints, Producer Marianne Ostrat
Description
The healing powers of sisterhood take on a new meaning in this luxuriant portrait by Anna Hints. Following a group of Estonian women who gather in a handmade sweat lodge, the film languidly moves through the seasons as bodies gather in the rituals of the sauna. Baring their souls and their flesh, tears are released into the heavy, warm air, and quickly dispelled with laughter as the women nurture one another. The specificity of each individual’s experience weaves a rich tapestry and yet there is a undertow of universal understanding flowing throughout this finely crafted film. Hints immerses us in a space innately known to all humans, suspending viewers in an ephemeral experience of love and acceptance. This debut feature won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema–Documentary directing award.
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Estonian writer, director, and composer Anna Hints began her filmmaking career making shorts, including Free World (2012), which won the Tallinn Black Night Film Festival’s Sleepwalkers Grand Prize; Manifest of Hope (2014); Ice (2018); and Homme saabub paradiis (2021). Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, her feature debut, won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Documentary directing award.
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Film Details
Language Estonian, Seto, Võro
Year 2023
Premiere California
Runtime 89
Country Estonia, France, Iceland
Director Anna Hints
Producer Marianne Ostrat, Juliette Cazanave, Hlín Jóhannesdóttir
Editor Hendrik Mägar, Tushar Prakash, Martin Männik, Qutaiba Barhamji, Anna Hints
Cinematographer Ants Tammik
Music Edvard Egilsson, EETER
Print Source
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