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Sundance Winner Anna Hints Readies for ‘Smoke Sauna Sisterhood’ Oscar Campaign, Encourages Viewers to Stop Apologizing for Their Tears

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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.

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