Smoke Sauna Sisterhood + Socials
11 - 18 Oct
|Reclaim The Frame Partner Cinemas
Next up for #ReclaimTheFrame... Anna Hints's intimate and immersive SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD 🍃 In southeast Estonia, in a traditional smoke sauna, a group of women from the Võro community come together to cleanse their bodies and share their stories.
Time & Location
11 - 18 Oct
Reclaim The Frame Partner Cinemas
About the event
Through Anna Hints’ Sundance-award winning documentary, we enter into their intimate space and immerse ourselves among this collective of women. Between the confines of the smoke sauna, and the frozen expanse of the forests beyond where the women take breaks to dip in a nearby iced-over lake, what director Hints creates is truly experiential. In observing sauna rituals rooted in community, egalitarianism and wellbeing, we see what it means for this group of women to create space for each other: for communion, solidarity and healing as they each regain the strength they need to face the world outside.
Please note this film contains discussions and recollections of sexual violence and domestic abuse.
This special screening will be followed by a chance to come together to chat about the film and meet members of the Reclaim The Frame team over a drink:
- Duke of York Picturehouse, Brighton - Wednesday 11 October, 18:00 (Including Director conversation + Intro by Rui Jin)
- Broadway Cinema, Nottingham - Monday 16 October, 18:15 (Intro by Daljinder Johal)
- Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast - Tuesday 17 Octover, 18:00 (Intro by Tresca Mallon)
- Exeter Phoenix - Wednesday 18 October, 18:45 (Intro by Robyn Lawrence)
- Chapter Cinema, Cardiff - Sunday 22 October, 12:00 (Intro by Sarah Gregory)
SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD will be presented with descriptive subtitles (SDH), and the introduction will be live captioned.