It also was voted the audience award at the Tromsø International Film Festival in Norway in January 2019. The film won the Nordic Council Film Prize and the Lux prize award of the European Parliament for 2018. Woman at War was shown at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, in the International Critics' Week section, where the screenwriters won the SACD award. All the while, the film's soundtrack players, consisting of a three-man band and Ukrainian traditional singers, interacts with the plot and characters. The film revolves around her attempts to reconcile her dangerous and illegal activism with the upcoming adoption. At the same time, the government ramps up police and propaganda efforts in order to catch and discredit her. One day, a long-forgotten application to adopt an orphan child from Ukraine is approved. Halla, a choir conductor and eco-activist, plans to disrupt the operations of a Rio Tinto aluminium plant in the Icelandic highlands, purposely damaging electricity pylons and wires to cut their power supply.
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