Anna Hints’ “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” is the Estonian entry in the Oscars Best International Feature Film race, and the only documentary among Estonia’s 21 submissions in the category. The film takes ...

One of the favorites to make the Oscar documentary feature shortlist this year takes viewers to a remote area of Estonia, within the healing space of the smoke sauna. It is an ancient tradition in ...

"You've always had the courage to run away, to do something else, this is something I admire so much." Greenwich Ent. has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film called Smoke Sauna ...

'Smoke Sauna Sisterhood' director Anna Hints says the film's confident assertion of local identity is key to its success. At the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, the Baltic Film sidebar ...

In a log-cabin sauna nestled in pretty woods by a lake, a setting straight off the top of a chocolate box, a group of women gather on and off through the changing seasons to sweat out their secrets ...

“Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” director Anna Hints keeps on bewitching her audience. Literally. “Maybe you are not wrong. Maybe it is witchcraft,” she says. “There is this word in Estonian, nõid. It means ...

In Anna Hints’s bewitching documentary, Estonian smoke saunas beget a sweaty purification process — one that’s revealed to be more than skin deep. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Standing naked beside a stranger in the women’s locker room at the Brooklyn YMCA, I have felt peace. In this level playing field—surrounded by God’s own variety of skin, bone, and hair—my inner critic ...

Distributors at the event delved into national and culturally specific campaigns for two very different but immensely successful arthouse films from 2023 Valgma, who kicked off the panel, shared how ...

The 6th edition of FIPADOC, which took place from 19 to 27 January in Biarritz and brought together a great number of international professionals, concluded with the unveiling of its winners.