A border separates what is allowed from what is forbidden. Scarleth is a 29-year-old Brazilian, and mother of three. With her mother Margarete, Scarleth crosses the border between Brazil and Argentina in search of a safe and legal abortion. The two women encountered the courage of generations of Argentinian women defending democracy and life.
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About the film
"a common woman" is a documentary about a story of abortion, but also about the courage of generations of anonymous women who have defied authoritarian political regimes. The motivation with this documentary was to offer a biography of this unknown familiarity that is abortion in Brazil. It's a film about a common event of a common Brazilian woman fleeing the punishment and stigma of abortion in her own country, interwoven with the past democratic struggle of Argentine women for rights, truth, and citizenship.
Women traveling across borders is a recent phenomenon in the history of abortion in Brazil. Abortion was legalized in Argentina in 2020, and little is known about this transit between countries. At a time of intense political transformations in Brazil and Argentina, the film locates Scarleth's story in a longer-lasting chapter of the democratic struggles for women's rights: the white scarves of the mothers and grandmothers of Plaza Mayo in the 1970s; and the green scarves of the girls, women and all the people of Maré Verde in the 2020s.
About the author
Debora Diniz
Debora Diniz is a Brazilian anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. Her films touch on sensitive and urgent women's issues. "A Common Woman" is her sixth documentary. Her previous films have been shown in more than 20 countries and received more than 50 awards
Featured at festival
SF3
17/11/2024
Sydney, Australia