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02.10.2023 - 13:39 / variety.com
Marta Balaga “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” director Anna Hints keeps on bewitching her audience. Literally. “Maybe you are not wrong.
Maybe it is witchcraft,” she says. “There is this word in Estonian, nõid. It means healer, shaman, which is what my grandmother used to be.
Words come to you and you heal through them. Coming from Estonian Indigenous culture, Võro, this connection with the spiritual world feels very natural to me. Artists are like witches.” Her film – already lauded at Sundance, where Hints was awarded for directing – was recently shown at Zurich.
Another one in a long life of festivals that fell for its portrayal of women sweating out toxins and inner demons, and sharing the most intimate stories. “Everyone kept telling me that Swiss viewers are passive, but they all sang with me. I always do that ‘thank you’ song, wherever I go with the film,” she notes.
“I am surprised, happy and humbled by what I see. Coming from a very small country, it proves that something local can turn into something universal. I think it has opened up many Estonian filmmakers’ eyes.” Learning to listen to her own voice as a director has been “a journey,” she confesses.
It also hasn’t been easy. “When I first applied for state funding, I was denied it. According to the committee, it didn’t make sense: ‘It’s a small room, it’s dark and there are all these women.’ Someone else added: ‘I haven’t seen anything like this before.’ I went: ‘But it’s a good thing!’,” she laughs.
Recalling that later, at Sundance, the jurors praised her for the exact same things. “It proves that when a film can be easily described on a piece of paper, it doesn’t mean you should make it. The way filmmaking is taught can be so rigid, but I am trying to be
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