The Day Iceland Stood Still (Boulder International Film Festival)
Saturday, Mar. 15 · 12:15 pm - 2 pm Longmont Museum 400 Quail Rd., Longmont, CO 80501
The Museum welcomes the Boulder International Film Festival back to our Stewart Auditorium for three glorious days featuring a wide variety of films from local, national and international filmmakers. For full program and festival information, please visit the Boulder International Film Festival website.
US/Iceland, Feature Documentary, 72 minutes, 2024
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 imagine the possible — changing your country into the “best place in the world to be a woman.”
PARTIALLY SUBTITLED
Directed by Pamela Hogan
Boulder Premiere
Pamela Hogan in person
