Director: Anna Hints
Runtime: 89 minutes
Country: Estonia, France, Iceland
Language: Estonian
Rating: M18

Awards

WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY – DIRECTING AWARD
2023 Sundance Film Festival

BEST DOCUMENTARY
2023 European Film Awards

Synopsis

“In the darkness, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.” – Anna Hints.

Sequestered amongst green forests, women gather and huddle together in a sauna cabin, in accordance with a centuries-old Estonian tradition. Amidst the soft haze and warmth of steaming wood, they while the time away by talking, from amusing anecdotes of their love lives, to frank ponderings on body insecurities, and wrested confessionals on personal trauma, motherhood, and death.

Inspired by her personal memories of the practice, Anna Hint’s ethereal documentary is a deeply cathartic observance of womanhood through their lives, experiences, and weathered bodies. The sauna holds their shared, naked vulnerability in a ripening treatise on human connections and the pure healing desire for safe spaces.

This screening is part of the programme Look/See: The Female Gaze in Cinema. For more screenings, please click here.

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