Women of Virtue
Directed by Stéphanie Halfon
Etel, a 9-year-old girl who lives in the Hassidic 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.
About Women of Virtue
Women of Virtue is a 30-minute short film from France directed by Stéphanie Halfon. It screened at the 2022 San Jose International Short Film Festival in the “World Cinema Two” program.
- Director
- Stéphanie Halfon
- Program
- World Cinema Two
- Country
- France
- Run time
- 30 mins
- Genre
- World Cinema
- Watch
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