Woman at War (12A)
Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson
 

WITH a deceptive lightness of touch, co-writer and director Benedikt Erlingsson deals memorably with the serious threat to the environment in Woman at War.

Set in Iceland, it centres on 50-year-old Halla (Halldora Geirhardsdottir) who declares a one-woman war on the local aluminium industry in a bid to protect her beloved highlands.

She starts off small-scale by causing power cuts but as she grows bolder she slowly progresses to industrial sabotage, which brings the negotiations between the Icelandic government and the corporation building an aluminium smelter to a halt.