The Day Iceland Stood Still
Where: Hot Docs Festiva
What: Movie, 60 mins.
When: Mon., April 29 (2:15 pm) TIFF Lightbox, Wed., May 1 (4:30 pm) Scotiabank
Genre: Documentary
Rating: NNNN (out of 5)
Why you should watch: You’ll want to stand up and cheer as a feisty group of Icelandic women recall the day in the ’ 70s when they shut the country down as 90 per cent of the women walked off their jobs — including housework — to demonstrate how important women were to the country and to protest rampant, institutional sexism in the society. There’s great archival footage and the interviewed women share awesome inside detail about how the movement evolved, their organizing strategies and their coalition- building efforts, which were necessary to unite almost the entire female population of the country. This film and the inspiriting women in it are just more proof that Iceland is a fucking cool country that definitely and routinely thinks outside the (ice) box.
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