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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 background in contemporary art and experimental folk music. The doc is her first feature.

The film’s synopsis reads: In the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.

The doc is a co-production between Estonia, France, and Iceland and played Cph: Dox, Hong Kong Film Festival, and Guanajuato following its Sundance bow. Greenwich Entertainment will release Smoke Sauna Sisterhood in North America in the autumn. Conic has acquired UK-Ireland distribution rights. Further deals...