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perfect sweat telling our story
Everyone sweats. It’s one of the most elemental things ‘Telling Our Story’ is the voice of 11 First Peoples.
a human body can do. And cultures throughout From more than thirty communities and villages in
history have celebrated the sweat bath. Inspired by Quebec, Labrador, New-Brunswick, Ontario and
the book, Sweat, by Mikkel Aaland, the series, ‘Perfect Maine. Each in turn, over one hundred women and
Sweat’, takes viewers on a voyage across the globe, men of all generations hold the talking stick with
revisiting countries and sweat bathing traditions humour, wisdom, and generosity, as they speak to us
Mikkel documented over 40 years ago. Explore the in Indigenous languages, French, and English. Telling
rebirth of sweat bathing rituals like the Finnish sauna, us - in their own way and from their perspective - their
Russian banya, Japanese mushiburo and more, world-view, their connection to the land, their values,
alongside local guides who know their sweat. their spirituality, their stories that span millennia, their
wounds, their struggles, their victories, and their
hopes.
genre: people & culture genre: people & culture
format: 7 x 30’ / 4K / 2021 format: 4 x 60’ / HD / 2022
credits: Bray’s Run Productions, LLC credits: Terre Innue Inc.
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