Ein Tag ohne Frauen

When 90 per cent of Icelandic women downed tools and left their homes one autumn morning in 1975, refusing to work, cook or look after their children, they brought their country to a standstill and catapulted Iceland to the status of ‘the best place in the world to be a woman’. Told for the first time by the women themselves and accompanied by playful animations, A DAY WITHOUT WOMEN is subversive and unexpectedly funny. ‘We loved our chauvinistic pigs,’ recalls one of the activists, ‘we just wanted to change them a little!’