Filmmaker and human rights attorney Paula Kweskin responded to the censorship of her film “Honor Diaries,” a doc about gendered “honor violence,” by starting the Censored Women’s Film Festival (CWFF) in 2015. And now, per Forward, she has launched The 49% Film Festival to advance gender equality around the globe.

The name is a reference to women being 49 percent of the world’s population, yet being severely underrepresented in many spheres, including Hollywood directors (eight percent of which are women), CEOs of top companies (4.8 percent), worldwide parliamentarians (32 percent), and researchers (30 percent).

Featuring an entirely women-directed lineup, The 49% Film Festival will be held today and tomorrow, March 6 and 7, in Jerusalem. The fest is screening Rana Abu Fraiha’s “In Her Footsteps,” which sees the director carrying out her deceased mother’s last wish; Afia Nathaniel’s “Daughter,” a family drama about forced marriage; Michal Aviad’s portrait of workplace harassment, “Working Woman”; and a shorts program including stories exploring religion and sexuality.

“I know deeply that this is a very magical, critical time for women’s storytelling,” Kweskin said of the fest. “And the way to change the status quo of women’s experiences is to change the stories that we’re seeing.” The “Faithkeepers” filmmaker believes The 49% Film Festival could inspire women around the world to create and share their own work. “I really do believe that art is the great disrupter,” she emphasized. “It is the thing that can really motivate and create change.”

Check out The 49% Film Festival’s website for more information.