Student Center films

The Student Center Programming Advisory Board is offering a spring film series in the Trabant University Center Theatre. Wednesday evening films begin at 7:30 p.m., and admission is $1. Times vary for the Friday and Saturday night films and admission is $3. Tickets are available at the University box office. For more information, call (302) UD1-HENS or visit the website at http://copland.udel.edu/stu-org/scpab.

Wednesday night films

March 13, “Toy Story”

March 20, “True Lies”

March 27, “The Matrix”

Weekend Films

March 8, “From Hell,” 7:30 p.m.; “Shallow Hal,” 10 p.m.

March 9, “Shallow Hal,” 7:30 p.m.; “From Hell,” 10 p.m.

March 15, “Monsters Inc.,” 7:30; “Behind Enemy Lines,” 10 p.m.

March 16, “Behind Enemy Lines,” 7:30 p.m; “Monsters Inc.,” 10 p.m.

March 22, “Ocean’s Eleven,” 7:30 p.m.; “Spy Games,” 10 p.m

March 23, “Spy Games,” 7:30 p.m.; “Ocean’s Eleven,” 10 p.m.

International Film Series

The spring International Film Series has screenings at 7:30 p.m., Sundays, in the Trabant University Center Theatre. All of the 35 mm films are free and open to the public. Foreign-language films are shown with subtitles.

For more information on the series, call (302) 831-4066 or visit the web site at http://www.English.udel.edu/ifs/.

	"The Taste of Others"

March 10, “The Taste of Others.” French comedy about the relationships of a dog named Flucky. Winner of four French Cesar Awards in 2001, this film was nominated for an Oscar as best foreign film.

March 17, “Djomeh.” Iranian film about an Afghani émigré to rural Iran and the cultural constraints on his efforts to woo a woman he wishes to marry. This film was winner of the Camera d’Or at Cannes in 2000.

March 24, “In the Mood for Love.” Chinese film starring Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung. Set in 1962 Hong Kong, the two stars play neighbors who discover that their spouses are having an affair.

Women’s History Month Film Series

Women’s History Month is being marked with “Women’s History/Women’s Lives,” a weekly movie and discussion series. All free public screenings begin at 7 p.m. Thursdays in 204 Kirkbride Lecture Hall. For more information on the film and discussion series, call 831-8063 or 831-8474.

March 12, “Senorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman.” The film tells the stories of more than 200 kidnapped, raped and murdered young women of Juarez, Mexico. Although the murders first came to light in 1993, young women continue to “disappear” while no credible evidence has been collected to convict possible perpetrators. The film examines the unsolved mystery of these young women’s disappearance, but it also asks why young women who leave their homes in rural Mexico to work in American-sponsored “maquiladoras” seem, in a global economy, to be so disposable. Alvina Quintana, associate professor in English, will lead the discussion.

March 19, “Take it From Me.” This film confronts the question: What happens to impoverished women when their welfare benefits run out? It also focuses on recent controversial reforms affected women seeking economic self-sufficiency in a minimum-wage economy. This film, a true reality program, provides some answers, not all of them comforting, and offers vivid portraits of hard working and resilient women experiencing the daunting reality of poverty in America. A representative for the Kensington Welfare Rights Union will provide some answers to the problems facing millions of women today.

March 26, “My Journey, My Islam.” This film, the last in the series, shows how Muslim women around the world have begun to wear the hijab (veil) and burkha (complete body cover), embracing symbolic clothing that their mothers and grandmothers once cast off as oppressive. Filmmaker Kay Rasool, born in India and living in England and Australia, journeys among Muslim women in several countries to discover why this is happening and what it means. Also shown will be “Shroud of Silence,” a short film covering the mandatory veiling of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Bahira Sherif, assistant professor of individual and family studies, and a representative from the Feminist Majority Foundation will speak at the program.

March 8, 2002