Women Are Heroes

For three years, French photographer and street artist JR travelled through communities in Brazil, Kenya, India and Cambodia, meeting and photographing the women who are often the first victims of war and the last to be considered in peacetime. In the resulting film, he documents the reactions to his large-scale images, which infiltrate public spaces. But he also focuses on people in interviews that are as amazingly full of life as his photos. Ambitious, deeply empathetic and gorgeously shot, Women Are Heroes is a mosaic of experiences honoring the will of communities to build, and finding joy beyond struggle. –Abu Dhabi Film Festival