Five women reflect on their experiences with forced motherhood and clandestine abortions in the Dominican Republic in Paula Cury’s debut feature, Scarlet Girls. After all, the Dominican Republic (DR) is still one of the few countries where abortion is criminalized without exception.
The film, exploring what it means to be a woman in the DR and the quiet violence of stigma, among other things, world premieres at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival CPH:DOX on Thursday, March 12. It is featured in the Human:Rights competition section of the Danish festival’s 23rd edition, which runs March 11-22, and will then screen at SXSW.
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Through a visual mix of evocative imagery and archival material, as well as the voices of five women, Scarlet Girls takes us inside women’s struggles. The testimonies shared come from four women who lived through abortion or forced motherhood, and from one mother
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