Film Discussion: "Cut From a Different Cloth"
Friday, 9/23, 12pm - 1pm
Friday, September 23, 2011 · 12 - 1 PM
On Campus : Women's Center, Commons, 004
Come and share your views regarding this documentary. All are welcome!
September 23, 2011 (Friday)
12pm - 1pm
Film discussion to be facilitated by Jill Scheibler of the Psychology Dept.
In 2005 filmmakers Cliff Orloff & Olga Shalygin returned to Afghanistan's northern city of Mazar-I-Sharif for the third time since the fall of the Taliban in 2002. The all-covering burqa, the high-walled living compounds and cultural restrictions on women limited their access. Olga, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, was puzzled why virtually all the Afghan women she saw still wore the burqa...even though security had greatly improved and a new constitution was adopted that granted women equal rights with men. Through Serena, a 27-year-old American woman, who is living with an Afghan family and their 27-year-old daughter Hasina, we are taken inside the walls that separate women from men. Serena becomes the eyes and ears of the filmmakers. Together, Serena, Hasina and Olga set out on a journey to learn what it means to be a woman in today's Afghanistan. Filmmaker: Olga Shalygin (2005)
