User:DerbyLinkkks/Women of Virtue

Women of Virtue is a French short film directed by Stéphanie Halfon in 2021.

Synopsis
Etel, a nine-year-old Orthodox Jew, has her period for the first time. Miriam, her mother, finally sees her as a woman. Etel is delighted, until she discovers that in her religion, women are impure when they are menstruating.

Technical sheet

 * Title : Women of Virtue
 * Director : Stéphanie Halfon
 * Scriptwriter : Stéphanie Halfon
 * Director of photography : Evgenia Alexandrova
 * Editor : Rémi Langlade
 * Costume designer : Léa Rutkowski
 * Interior designer : Armelle Rabaté
 * Sound editor : Ange Hubert
 * Production : Mondina Films
 * Co-production : Delante Cinéma
 * Origin country : 🇫🇷
 * original language : French
 * Genre : Fiction, Drama
 * Running time : 30 minutes


 * Lou Bennett : Etel
 * Zineb Triki : Myriam
 * Carla Besnaïnou : Shaina
 * Olivia Côte : Dr. Adler
 * Séram Borgel-Guez : David
 * Jean-Jacques Scemama : Haim
 * Yaniv Douieb : Shmuel
 * Eliott Bloch : Chlomo

Award

 * Prix Unifrance / France Télévisions female interpretation for Lou Bennett (2022)


 * Selected for the 2022 Unifrance Short Film Prize


 * Paris Courts Devant – out of competition (2022, 🇫🇷)
 * Festival international du film de Santa Barbara – Women taking charge (2022, 🇺🇸)
 * Festival Pluriel.les – competition (2022, 🇫🇷)
 * Aspen Shortfest – competition [Women of Virtue] (2022, 🇺🇸)
 * International Children Care Festival – competition (2022, 🇫🇷)
 * Festival du Film de Vébron – competition (2022, 🇫🇷)
 * Lago Film Fest – competition Unicef Teens [Women of Virtue] (2022, 🇮🇹)
 * Festival international du film de Rhode Island – competition [Women of Virtue] (2022, 🇺🇸)
 * Nòt Film Fest – competition [Women of Virtue] (2022, 🇮🇹)
 * Nevada City Film Festival – competition [Women of Virtue] (2022, 🇺🇸)
 * DC Shorts Film Festival – competition [Women of Virtue] (2022, 🇺🇸)
 * Bolton Film Festival – competition (2022, 🇬🇧)
 * César - competition (2022, 🇫🇷)