This is the trailer for an upcoming short documentary featuring candid conversation with gay men in Argentina about what sauna spaces mean to them: community, safety, and a rare sense of belonging. The location remains undisclosed by request, a reminder that even today, being openly gay carries r...

In Buenos Aires, a group of Russian speaking migrants who left Russia between 2022 and 2023 in opposition to the war built a public banya that now runs on a weekly rhythm of heat, cold, pause, and repetition. On women's days, the steam carries the scent of fir brought in from the Siberian taiga, ...

Across Minnesota's North Shore and Iron Range, sauna carries the imprint of Finnish immigration that began more than a century ago. In Ely, the Ely Steam Sauna has run as a public, steam-operated bathhouse for over a hundred years, passed down through generations of the same community. Nearby, at...

Sauna Channel presents a cinematic exploration into the heart of Moroccan social life with "The Changing World of Moroccan Hammams." The film bridges the gap between the technical preservation of historic structures and the preservation of the Moroccan soul.
Architect Rachid Haloui, a heritage co...

Yuval Zohar, an architect living in Japan and author of the book Towards a Nude Architecture, has visited more than 120 onsen across the country over fifteen years, documenting each with photographs and sketches. His research led him to Dogo Onsen in Matsuyama, one of Japan's oldest, with a recor...

An hour outside Bandung, hosts Nisa and Amelia hike through forest to what locals still call Cibuni, Sundanese for a hidden or special place, now more commonly known as Rengganis Crater after Dewi Rengganis. At Sumber, a pilgrimage site where visitors come to pray, the spring called Si Jalatuna r...

This episode moves between two bathing sites in Central Java. The first is a natural hot spring reached on foot through forest, its water near 40 degrees Celsius, where local visitors keep soaks to roughly ten to thirty minutes and return for the quiet rather than the more crowded pool nearby. Th...

Near Borobudur, the ninth-century Buddhist temple in Central Java, hosts Nisa and Amelia take part in a ritual rooted in Kejawen, the island's ancient spiritual tradition in which water carries away what a person no longer needs. Guided through the ceremony known as mitoni urip, they enter a spri...

At Burning Man, a camp known for its steam room has grown over seven years into one of Black Rock City's rituals, built around a Japanese wood-fired water heater retrofitted with a propane insert to turn it into what one builder calls a self-contained desert steam room. Visitors, some carrying th...

A first look at Badedampfer, where a floating sauna and six self-drive hot tub boats share a mooring on the Spree at Treptower Park. Between rounds of heat, guests jump straight into the river with the TV Tower in view. The full film, premiering on Sauna Channel in fall 2026, follows the company ...