Woman at war kona fer i strid is a 2018 icelandic ukrainian comedy drama film written produced and directed by benedikt erlingsson and starring halldora geirhardsdottir following a premiere at 2018 cannes film festival via the international critics week it was released on 22 may 2018 to critical acclaim and selected as the icelandic entry for the best foreign language film at the . Woman at war critics consensus treating its timely themes with a deceptively light touch woman at war is easy to enjoy in the moment yet its impact lingers long after the closing credits roll. During the war many women took a wide variety of civilian jobs that had once been filled by men canada had its own version of rosie the riveter the symbolic working woman who laboured in factories to help the war effort women worked shoulder to shoulder with men in factories on airfields and on farms. Halla is a fifty year old independent woman but behind the scenes of a quiet routine she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist known to others only by her alias the woman of the mountain halla secretly wages a one woman war on the local aluminum industry