title: Urusaro International Women Film Festival
text: # 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.
  