X
In Theaters Now
- 2023
- 1 h 29 m
- 2023
- 1 h 29 m
Summary Women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences inside an Estonian smoke sauna. Cleansing their bodies and baring their souls, they embrace the healing power of sisterhood.
Directed By: Anna Hints
Written By: Anna Hints
In Theaters Now
- 2023
- 1 h 29 m
- 2023
- 1 h 29 m
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
79
5.5
Where to Watch
Summary Women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences inside an Estonian smoke sauna. Cleansing their bodies and baring their souls, they embrace the healing power of sisterhood.
Directed By: Anna Hints
Written By: Anna Hints
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
79
100% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
79
100% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
What makes a space feel safe? The small miracle of the Estonian film “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” is that it does more than show us a blissfully safe space; it invites us inside.
The thematic equilibrium within Smoke Sauna Sisterhood does not negate the male gaze. Rather, it asserts the feminine. Through confession and testimony, women become embodied. Witnesses, irrespective of gender, fortify their truth.
Hints, whose grandmother introduced her to the smoke-sauna ritual, uses the documentary to speak volumes about what it means to be a woman, even as the focus remains fixed on a single location: a cramped sauna-cabin located in a forest.
It’s an intense watch; at times infectiously hilarious, at others wrenchingly sad. For the film’s brief running time, there’s an emotional osmosis at play, in both sauna and cinema alike.
With its traditions captured in delicate, sweaty vignettes by filmmaker Anna Hints, Smoke Sauna Sisterhood’s anecdotes fill your lungs and engulf you, until its women’s secrets drip down your body.
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood is a window into an enviable cultural practice of solidarity, as the safe communal space provides a place for gossip and laughter as well as the expression of pain.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 User Ratings
5.5
58% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
8% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
33% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 User Ratings
5.5
58% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
8% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
33% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
There are no user reviews yet. Be the first to add a review.
Production Company
Alexandra Film,
Kepler 22 Production,
Ursus Parvus
Release Date Nov 24, 2023
Duration 1 h 29 m
Genres
Awards
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 4 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Guanajuato International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
