An award-winning documentary that tells the stories of powerful women in the Third World who are fighting for change is the Bermuda International Film Festival's November Film Series presentation.

'The Shape of Water' will screen today at 7.30 p.m. in the Tradewinds Auditorium at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute.

The film has been shown in some 30 film festivals around the world, including FESPACO in Burkina Faso — and won best documentary prizes at festivals in Washington DC, Miami, San Francisco and at the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival in New York.

The film creates intimate portraits of four women as it drives the dusty roads of Senegalese villages and the energetic streets of Dakar, walks into Brazil's Amazonian rainforest, stands on a busy corner in Jerusalem and takes a train ride into the Himalayan foothills.

The women, social justice pioneers in their countries, are opposing military occupations, protesting dams that threaten to drown their homes and lives, safeguarding the biodiversity of the planet, tapping for rubber to protect the rainforest and fighting against ritual female genital mutilation.

Susan Sarandon narrates the 71-minute film, which offers fresh and nuanced insights into the lives of women in the Third World.

BIFF gift certificates will be available at the screening, and will also be available from the Pulp and Circumstance store on Reid Street beginning on November 30.

Tickets, $8 for BIFF Film Club members and $10 for non-members, can be reserved by e-mailing the festival at info[AT]biff.bm.