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Sponsored by: Rena Koopman
Winner: Director’s Prize for International Documentary, Sundance Film Festival
In the darkness of the smoke sauna, a revered Estonian tradition, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength. Named one of the year’s best films by The New York Times and Screen International, the film also received the director’s prize for international documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, which called the film “A transcendental story of women that bring us into their bodies, their traumas and their healing. Tales of patriarchy that we have rarely seen on screen come together with cinematic beauty, humor, wisdom and refreshing self-awareness.”