40Braids WOMEN'S ACTION & FILM CARAVAN
40Braids is a traveling international festival, celebrating films by and about women; traveling its own Silk Roads, weaving intercultural dialogue to support women's universal action. It gives a central place to women's stories about their history and current realities and challenges gender stereotypes, in order to shape collective memory and build a common future for humanity. 40Braids aims to strengthen women's resilience in the face of war, violence, militarism, populism and extremism, and climate change through transnational North-South and South-South dialogue.
OPEN ASIA, based in Paris, France, leads the 40Braids Women’s Action & Film Caravan. 40Braids benefits from the rich experience of OPEN ASIA, in particular the successful establishment and organisation of 5editions of the International Women’s Film Festival – Herat since 2013 in collaboration with local partners. A successful example of creating safe and innovative forums in a both closed and conflict-affected context, this festival has brought hundreds of independent international films and related events to thousands of participants in Afghanistan, a majority of whom are ordinary women.
