SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD

Estonia 2023 - DCP - 89 minutes, in Estonian with English subtitles

Director, Screenplay: Anna Hints

Producer: Marianne Ostrat

Print Courtesy: Greenwich Entertainment

The traditional smoke sauna of Estonia is part of UNESCO’s list of world cultural heritage. In director Anna Hints’ beautifully visualized Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, a small group of diverse women gather in this intimate space where they can cleanse not just their bodies, but also their souls. Water, fire, air, and the earth of the burning wood bring the four elements into one space with the women, who make very human magic from these ingredients over the course of four seasons. Hints immerses us in a space perhaps innately known to all humans, but here specifically feminine, suspending viewers in a powerful experience of love and acceptance. —KE

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