The Day Iceland Stood Still

October 10th, 2025
Hindsight Film Festival screened The Day Iceland Stood Still, which premiered at HotDocs and has shown internationally to wide acclaim, but is still not available online. The film recalls one day in 1975 when 90 percent of the women in Iceland skipped their jobs and housework to demonstrate in the streets for equal pay and opportunity. The film was followed by an interview with the filmmakers, Emmy-winner Pamela Hogan, and Icelandic producer Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdottir, by Amy Paige Condon of the Savannah Morning News.

Amy Paige Condon asks The Day Iceland Stood Still filmmakers about how documentary films like this can amplify progressive voices in a moment of regression for gender equality.

The feature presentation was preceded by Armadillo Olympics, a 10 minute film by local student filmmaker Bae Allen, which looks back an agricultural phenomenon that started 45 years ago in Southeast Georgia. We chatted with Bae Allen about his process of discovering the lost Southern tradition and bringing it to the big screen.