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The Estonian Film Institute nominates Anna Hints' documentary “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” (“Savvusanna sõsarad” in Estonian), a documentary about women who come together in the protective darkness of the smoke sauna – an important part of the Estonian cultural heritage – to the American Film Academy Awards for consideration in the Best International Feature Film category.

Estonia has selected the Sundance prize-winning doc Smoke Sauna Sisterhood as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars. Directed by Anna Hints and produced by Marianne Ostrat, the film won the directing award in the World Cinema Documentary section at Sundance. Hints is an Estonian film director with a …

The doc is a co-production between Estonia, France, and Iceland.

Estonia has submitted the documentary Smoke Sauna Sisterhood as its entry for the Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards 2024.

Saunas, an integral part of Estonian identity, are a space for women to wash away the shame cast over their bodies and commune over shared experiences.

A group of women strip off for a session of sweating and soul-bearing in this candid documentary.

01/06/2023 - 12 fiction and 10 documentary features are going head to head in the 2 international competitions, while 9 films are taking part in the feature competition of Romanian Days

Beldocs has awarded its top prizes to 'ThIIIrd,' from Karim Kassim, in the International Competition Program, and Tijana Petrovic's 'A Field Guide to Coastal Fortifications' in the Serbian Competition Program.

17/05/2023 - Anna Hints’ Smoke Sauna Sisterhood has won the Eurimages Audentia Award, given out for the first time by the festival

17/05/2023 - Patriarchal violence will be the leitmotiv of an event that, between 18 and 28 May, will screen 26 documentary films and whose official jury will be chaired by Isabel Coixet