n “The Day Iceland Stood Still” Emmy Award-winning director and journalist Pamela Hogan reconstructs the historic women’s strike in Iceland on 24 October 1975. On that day, approximately 90% of Icelandic women downed tools and brought the country to a standstill to demand equality and stronger women’s rights.
The documentary combines interviews, archive material and animations to create a vivid historical document. The humorous, visually creative presentation and the participation of prominent voices such as Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Iceland’s first president and the world’s first female head of state, are particularly impressive.
Pamela Hogan is known for socio-political documentaries such as Women, War & Peace, the first series ever to examine war and peace processes from the perspective of women.