Urusaro International Women Film Festival
# Urusaro International Women Film Festival

The Urusaro International Women Film Festival (sometimes shortened to the Urusaro Festival) is a Rwandan women's film festival. It was originally started in 2015 by a Rwandan group of women filmmakers.

Organized by Cinéfemmes Rwanda, it is intended to bring together and empower women filmmakers. The idea of holding the Kigali-based film festival was from local Rwandan filmmaker Poupoun Sesonga Kamikazi.

## Awards

As of 2019 the Urusaro Festival gave awards to best films in the following categories:

* National Short Fiction
* National Documentary
* East African Short Fiction
* East African Documentary
* African Short Fiction
* African Documentary
* African Feature Fiction.
