One of the favorites to make the Oscar documentary feature shortlist this year takes viewers to a remote area of Estonia, within the healing space of the smoke sauna. It is an ancient tradition in ...

Anna Hints’ “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” is the Estonian entry in the Oscars Best International Feature Film race, and the only documentary among Estonia’s 21 submissions in the category. The film takes ...

Anna Hints, the Estonian director behind acclaimed documentary "Smoke Sauna Sisterhood," is unleashing "Black Hairy Beast," a folk story and body horror musical "inspired by a personal love story," ...

In Anna Hints’s bewitching documentary, Estonian smoke saunas beget a sweaty purification process — one that’s revealed to be more than skin deep. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Here’s a brief history of documentary moviegoing. In the 1960s, the documentary as we know it was being invented, but hardly anyone saw them. In the ’70s and ’80s, a new generation of masters — ...

Anna Hints, the Estonian director behind acclaimed documentary “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood,” is unleashing “Black Hairy Beast,” a folk story and body horror musical “inspired by a personal love story,” ...