Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Name: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 24, 2023
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 82
Cast: Kadi Kivilo

2023

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Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date (Streaming): November 24, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Kadi Kivilo

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.

Director: Anna Hints

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 89 min

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Liz Braun

Jan 23, 2024

The women's stories are devastating. And familiar. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nell Minow

Nov 22, 2023

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. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Oct 15, 2023

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. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Nov 23, 2023

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. Read full review

Alexandra Conwell

Dec 7, 2023

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. Read full review

Jacob Oller

Nov 21, 2023

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. Read full review

Saskia Lloyd Gaiger

Oct 13, 2023

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. Read full review

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