Anna Hints

Anna Hints is an Estonian film director with a background in contemporary art and experimental folk music. Anna’s debut feature documentary Smoke Sauna Sisterhood won the Directing Award at Sundance (...) Film Festival World Cinema Documentary Competition program in January 2023. It also brought Anna the prestigious Audentia Award that is given once a year to a female director by Eurimages. Smoke Sauna Sisterhood was the Estonian National Entry at 96th Academy Awards and won the European Film Award in Best Documentary. It has so far won 27 awards and jury Special Mentions and sold to 33 territories worldwide. Smoke Sauna Sisterhood is a nominee of LUX European Audience Film Award, Critics Choice Documentary Award in Best First Feature Documentary, of Cinema Eye Honors in 4 categories, of PGA Award for Outstanding Producing of Documentary Motion Picture and winner of Best Cinematography at IDA Awards and at Cinema Eye Honors. The film continues to tour festivals around the world. Anna is a member of electronic-folk trio EETER that scored the feature documentary Wind Sculpted Land (nomination in the Best Film Music category at the Estonian Film and TV Awards 2018). EETER also collaborated with Icelandic composer Eðvarð Egilsson in Smoke Sauna Sisterhood.