In a small village in Transylvania, women are knitting new opportunities for themselves in this documentary from filmmaker Ileana Stanculescu. Deutschweisskirch is a town that for the most part has been passed over in the economic progress of the European Union, and for a long time jobs for women were hard to come by. However, a German musician with an entrepreneurial bent has helped to change this by discovering a market for hand-knitted wool socks, and in turn finding in the village a large number of women eager to earn some extra money through their handiwork. Village of Socks observes what has become a daily ritual as dozens of women meet in the town square, compare notes on their lives, and work on their knitting with an eye towards selling their work. Village of Socks was screened as part of the 2007 Hot Docs International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi