Women of Virtue

TITLE

Women of Virtue

DIRECTOR

Stéphanie Halfon

COUNTRY

France

YEAR

2021

DURATION

30′

GENRE

Fiction

Overview

Women of Virtue

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.

DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY​ - Stéphanie Halfon

Stéphanie 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.

Credits

Specifications

Stéphanie Halfon

Stéphanie 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.

SELECTIONS & AWARDS

Group 1579

Tirana International Film Festival

Best KIDs +11, 2022

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