61st Viennale – Vienna International Film Festival

Austria, October 19 - October 31 2023

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The jury

Nachum Mochiach (Israel), Barbara Gasser (Austria), Giuseppe Di Salvatore (Italy)

Awarded films

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood by Anna Hints
(Estonia, France, Iceland, 2023, 89 min.)

Reports

The cinema experience is pleasure and pain at the same time by Giuseppe Di Salvatore
A Space for Peace by Barbara Gasser
The Naked Truth by Nachum Mochiach

The winning film “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood”

At the 61st Viennale, the FIPRESCI Prize has been awarded to Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Estonia, France, Iceland, 2023) by Anna Hints. The film “commits itself to approaching sensitive topics in an organic way that dares to make trauma explicit and produce a contagious empowerment.”