![]() ![]() For the women in the film, in the hours sweating naked in the hut – away from families, phones, the relentless exhausting to-do list of being a woman – something happens. ![]() In the past, babies were born in smoke saunas, the sick were brought to them they were even used to cure ham. ![]() Estonia’s centuries-old tradition of smoke saunas is Unesco-listed, we learn in the final credits (along with French baguette-making and beekeeping in Slovenia, according to the agency’s website). There is such raw emotional intimacy in this dazzling documentary from Estonia, filmed in a cabin in the woods where a group of women meet regularly to take a sauna.
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