The Day Iceland Stood Still

US, Iceland, Feature Documentary, 2024, 72 min

When 90% of the women of Iceland walked off the job and out of their homes one fall morning refusing to work, cook, or take care of the children, they threw a huge wrench into the patriarchal machine and brought their country to a standstill. That was Oct. 24, 1975, a day Icelandic men called The Long Friday. Told for the first time by the women themselves, the story is subversive and unexpectedly funny. “We loved our male chauvinist pigs,” recalls one of the activists, “We just wanted to change them a little!” The following year, Iceland's parliament passed a law guaranteeing equal rights to women and men.The Day Iceland Stood Still inspires viewers to reimagine the possible - changing your country into the “best place in the world to be a woman”. PARTIALLY SUBTITLED Subtitled.

Directed by Pamela Hogan