International Women’s Film Festival-Herat

The second round of the International Women’s Film Festival – Herat has been postponed to spring 2014!!! The secretariat of the Women’s Film Festival informs all participants that due to security reasons and the upcoming presidential elections in April 2014, the International Film Festival will be held this spring.

Armanshahr Foundation and Roya Film House, headed by Guissou Jahangiri and Roya Sadat respectively, organised “The First International Women’s Film Festival-Herat” at the ancient citadel of Herat, 7-9 March 2013, marking 8 March, the International Women’s Day. More than 1500 people attended. The Festival Secretariat had received 100 films from 20 countries, out of which 10 films from Afghanistan and 25 films from other countries were screened. Several filmmakers from Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan and India were guests of the Festival.