SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD Trailer | RIGA IFF 2023

SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD Directed by: Anna Hints EE/FR/IS, 2023 They seek community by sweating both body and soul. Sweat drips from their temples, a haze permeates the air of the sauna, one story follows another… Women share intimate experiences like confessions ranging from their relationship with their bodies and sexuality and bringing children into the world to everything that is unfaltering, undisclosed and timelessly beautiful. Only the naked truth. These few square metres provide a safe haven that separates them from the outside world, while warming them in the hushed intimacy and joy of togetherness. One puts a hand on another’s shoulder: we’re all going through this together. This lyrical southern Estonian female prayer, which won the Documentary Directing Award at Sundance, was inspired by an experience the director had at the age of 11, when her grandmother revealed her grandfather’s infidelity in a sauna. In this simultaneousl