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CHILBIRTH BANNED IN PARADISE

PROIBIDO NASCER NO PARAÍSO

By Joana NIN

Documentary - Completed 2021

In Fernando de Noronha, a paradisiacal island in Brazil, women have been forced to leave home by their 7th month of pregnancy to give birth in the mainland. The natives' right may be an obstacle to luxury tourism.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- BRAZIL
- Languages
- PORTUGUESE
- Duration
- 78 mn
- Director(s)
- Joana NIN
- Producer(s)
- Ade MURI (Sambaqui Cultiural), Joana NIN (Sambaqui Cultural)
- Synopsis
- Pregnant women from the paradise island of Fernando de Noronha, 360km off the Brazilian coast, are separated from their families and workplaces and sent to the mainland 12 weeks before giving birth. Pressure is brought upon those who resist. Their babies are not made welcome in their forebears' lands. Without any reasonable explanation, the government has been denying the right of permanent residence to children of native people. Meanwhile, tourism is attracting more and more celebrities and outside investors to the island.