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Women of Virtue

Etel, a 9-year-old girl who lives in the Orthodox community in Paris, gets her period for the first time. Myriam, her mother, finally looks at her as if she were a woman. Etel is blessed, until she finds out that in her religion, women are considered impure when they have their period.

Category: Drama, Europe, Fiction, Jewish Film, Jewish Highlights, Marriage and Parenting, Religion, Short Film, Women
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Description

Awards
Cesar 2023 Nominee, Unifrance Prize 2022 Nominee

Official Selection
24 selections including 5 Oscar-qualifying: ASPEN 2022
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Tirana 2022
RIFF 2022
Izmir 2022

Synopsis

Etel, a 9-year-old girl who lives in the Orthodox community in Paris, gets her period for the first time. Myriam, her mother, finally looks at her as if she were a woman. Etel is blessed, until she finds out that in her religion, women are considered impure when they have their period.

Director

Stéphanie Halfon was born and raised in Rome in a traditionalist Sephardic family. She then studied in Paris, where she began a career in film production: in charge of development, she supports screenwriters and directors in the writing of their feature films. After a first self-produced film purchased by OCS, Women of Virtue (Les Vertueuses) is her first produced short film and draws on her experience in the Parisian Hassidic community.

Additional information

Length

29 min

Release year

2022

Countries of origin

France

Languages

French

Subtitle

English

Genre

Short/Drama

Educational Pricing (DVD/Blu-Ray)

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