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SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD

SAVVUSANNA SÕSARAD

By Anna HINTS

CONIC - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, UNITED KINGDOM

Documentary - Completed 2023

In a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ESTONIA, FRANCE, ICELAND
- Duration
- 89 mn
- Director(s)
- Anna HINTS
- Synopsis
- In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength. The first documentary by an Estonian director to compete and win at Sundance, Smoke Sauna Sisterhood is a deeply moving, intimate and breathtaking approach to representing issues of trauma, healing, and community. Filmed almost as if a Vermeer or Rembrandt painting, the camera is never intrusive, never mechanical. Rather, the images move as the smoke – lingering, wafting, suspended briefly before disappearing and reappearing. With an authentic voice and authority born of their own heritage, filmmaker Anna Hints has created a transformative experience of being human within a female body, showing women “as they are” with great emotional veracity and deep empathy.