Adrift

Name: Adrift
Director: Paula Cury Melo
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-04-13

2019 · 20 min · Documentary

Expecting mothers as young as 14 reveal their hopes, fears, and fierce determination in a country where sexual education is absent, teen pregnancy is the norm, and abortion is illegal in all circumstances.

Directed by Paula Cury Melo

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Through intimate narrations and evocative imagery, women across the Dominican Republic reflect on their experiences with forced motherhood and clandestine abortion. What does it mean to exist as a woman in a country where abortion remains criminalized without exception?

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