January 23rd – 7-10pm, Calhoun 100 Theater; Water (India, 2005) Directed by Deepa Mehta

In India during the 1930s, women are sent away to “widow houses” to live quiet lives of celibacy and discipline, among their own kind, after their husbands die. Against the backdrop of India’s struggle for independence from British colonial rule, “Water” tells the story three women forced into the poverty of a “widow house” and how they went against the Hindu traditions that bound them.

Co-sponsors: the Austin Film Society, Panel discussion follows screening

Admission is free and open to the public.
For Directions to Calhoun 100 Theater
http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/cal.html

For more information about the film series
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/cwgs/

CWGS Film Screening
Claiming Ourselves: Women, Power, and Leadership

Claiming Ourselves: Women, Power and Leadership Film Series
Over the course of the year the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies will offer a series of six film screenings on the challenges women face and the leadership they exercise as they seek to empower themselves and their communities. For each of the films, there will be a discussion with one of the filmmakers or a UT professor after the screening.