Women Empowerment today has taken on a new meaning. Giving out powerful messages of deep courage & unshakeable resilience, many inspiring short documentaries are bringing forward voices & stories of empowered women who need to be seen & heard.

Bandra Film Festival presented by FilmKaravan in collaboration with YouTube in their next line up will be showcasing two amazing shorts on 30th August as part of its upcoming theme `Women Empowerment` on its YouTube channel. The digital film festival will be showcasing Michelle Fiordaliso`s `The Streets are Ours` and Suyash Bajpai & Saurabh Agarwal`s `Parvaaz`.

The line up has `Parvaaz` a documentary about empowerment done right through actions and not just spoken words through an organization - Sanatkada, which provides these women various modern training programs making their lives worth living. Directed by Suyash Bajpai & Saurabh Agarwal the short film stars Madhavi Kuckreja, Nasreen Khatoon and Meena Soni and `The Streets are Ours` directed by Michelle Fiordaliso`s is a documentary short that tells the inspiring story of two Pakistani women: Sabeen Mahmud, founder of Karachi performance space T2F, who paved the way for American actress/writer Fawzia Mirza to perform her one-woman show across Pakistan, one month before Mahmud`s tragic murder.

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Talking about the line up, festival programmer, Andrea Manath said, "It`s an honor to showcase such incredible and inspiring stories that celebrate courageous and bold women and the filmmakers who create them. Giving a platform and exhibiting great talents and content will be our continued goal at the festival which will help highlight experienced voices in the industry."