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.

Directed by Stéphanie Halfon

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Cast

Lou Bennett

Etel

Zineb Triki

Myriam

Carla Besnaïnou

Shaina

Olivia Côte

Dr. Alder

Séram Borgel-Guez

David

Jean-Jacques Scemama

Haim

Yaniv Douieb

Shmuel

Elliot Bloch

Chlomo

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