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This documentary film offers insight into the unique challenges faced by international spouses who leave their previous lives (careers, studies, family & friends) to start anew in an unfamiliar environment.

It profiles the lives of 4 women who accompanied their husbands to the United States, where they were doing graduate study or research at Stanford University.

Created by a Belgian filmmaker (herself a spouse), it features the experiences and perspectives of women from 4 countries, interspersed with comments by an advisor and a marriage and family therapist. Among the issues discussed are the interruption of one’s career, raising children overseas, adjusting to a new culture and creating a new identity in the new setting. The film enables spouses to realize that others share their experience, and to put their situation into a broader perspective.

The 48-minute video is suitable for showing to international spouses, i couples and families, and to campus administrators and community volunteers who interact with international graduate students, visiting scholars, post-docs and visiting researchers. It can also be useful as a springboard for discussion in ESL classes attended by spouses and partners from abroad.

Copies of the DVD are available at $10 each, including mailing.

Send email inquiries to: video@ccisStanfordU.org

To order copies, send 1) a check payable to “CCIS “,

2) Number of copies of DVD you request, and

3) Mailing address to receive DVDs (please print clearly).

Send information and check to:

Community Committee for International Students (CCIS) - Video

Bechtel International Center

584 Capistrano Way, Stanford, CA 94305, USA