Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

| Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
(Gloria)

Since 2014, the Estonian tradition of the smoke sauna has been included in the UNESCO list of Intangible World Cultural Heritage. The filmmaker Anna Hints chooses a very personal and extremely moving approach to this subject: Together with a group of women of different ages, the camera moves through the archaic-looking sweat lodges and listens to the stories of the sisterhood that has found itself here in the dark to confide in each other. A film of meditative and almost mystical beauty, silence and relentless openness. (Joachim Kurz)

  • Duration: 89 Min.
  • Countries: Estonia, France, Iceland
  • Languages: Estonian, Seto, Võro
  • Subtitles: English
  • Production year: 2023

  • Director: Anna Hints
  • Camera: Ants Tammik
  • Editing: Hendrik Mägar, Tushar Prakash, Qutaiba Barhamji, Martin Männik, Anna Hints
  • Sound: Huldar Freyr Arnarson
  • Production: Marianne Ostrat