Synopsis
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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Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Mondina Films
- Co-production : Delante Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : EROÏN Films
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producer : Anne Berjon
- Screenwriter : Stéphanie Halfon
- Director of photography : Evgenia Alexandrova
- Music Composer : Frédéric Alvarez
- Assistant director : Sophie Bouteiller
- Editor : Rémi Langlade
- Sound Recordist : Colin Favre-Bulle
- Costume designer : Léa Rutkowski
- Co-producer : Caroline Adrian
- Assistant Operator : Marion Raymond-Seraille
- Production manager : Clélia Koothan
- Sound Editor : Ange Hubert
- Continuity supervisor : Alexia Montegu
- Production Designer : Armelle Rabaté
- Casting : Alicia Cadot
- Grader : Vincent Amor
- Make-up Artist : Morgane Vandé
- Sound Mixer : Thibaut Macquart
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Legend, Portrait
- Themes : Adolescence, Femininity, Religion
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2021
- Runtime : 30 min 1 seconds
- Visa number : 154.420
- Visa issue date : 07/02/2022
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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