Festival opening & The day Iceland stood still, Iceland, 2024, 71’

Oct. 24, 1975, Iceland: 90% of women just took the day off, and men scrambled to fulfill their duties, sometimes comically so. A gleeful, amazing tale of the feminist collective, "The Red Stockings", and their search for equality.

The festival will kick off with "O joaca de copii", a performative reading exploring the inner tensions that arise when society cultivates the idea that feminine identity is almost entirely conflated with the role of mother. The performance discusses not only the pressure of this expectation, but also how women's care and reproductive labor often remains invisible despite its essential role in personal life and in supporting the social structure.

The performative reading will last 35 minutes and will be in Romanian.