Steam of Life Steam of Life

Tuesday 20 November 2012 6:00PM Steam of Life

Finnish men in saunas bare themselves, both body and soul and speak straight from the heart about love, death, birth and friendship...about life itself. In the warmth of the sauna they cleanse themselves both physically and mentally in an exceptionally intimate and poetic film with a few extremely creative sauna construction concepts thrown in.

  • Original Title: Miesten vuoro
  • Country: Finland
  • Director: Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen
  • Language: Finnish with subtitles in English
  • Runtime: 81minutes
  • Release Date: 2012
  • Website: Oktober Oy
  • Other Links: Steam of Life on facebook

Trailers & Other Videos

Awards and Festivals

  • Visions du Réel, Nyon 2010 - Prize of the Interreligious Jury
  • Docaviv, Tel Aviv 2010 - Prize, International Contest
  • Planete Doc Review, Warsaw 2010 - Millennium Award
  • DOK, Leipzig 2010 - Silver Dove
  • Jussi, National Finnish Film Award 2011 - Best Documentary
  • Academy Awards 2011 - Finland's Nomination, Best Foreign Language Film

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