Smoke Sauna Sisterhood - Healing, cleansing and unburdening in an Estonian sauna
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Smoke-Sauna-Sisterhood-Healing-cleansing-and-unburdening-in-an-Estoni
The documentary Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (d. Anna Hints) almost entirely takes place in a smoke sauna in Vana-Võromaa, South-East Estonia. In the sauna a group of women come together to purify, cleanse, heal and converse. Opening with haunting chants in a fairy-tail woodland and wisps of smoke, I was reminded of Midsommar, and ignorantly wondered if this Smoke Sauna Sisterhood was going to be a matriarchal cult, albeit in rural Estonia not Sweden. While the documentary deals with the (...) #Features