2021 | France | Fiction

Les vertueuses (Women of virtue)

  • French English 30 mins
  • Director | Stéphanie Halfon
  • Writer | Stéphanie Halfon
  • Producer | Anne Berjon, Caroline Adrian
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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.

 

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