Most women can’t wait for their due date to arrive, which is why the idea of a ‘birth strike’ has captured our attention this week.

 

A director has launched a Kickstarter campaign in the hope of raising enough funds to make a film about a pregnant Greek girl ‘on birth strike’.

 

The short film, 37 Days – which is due to be shot in Athens later this year – tells the story of young Maria who is working off the books at a nail salon. She is left in a dilemma, however, when she is unexpectedly fired from her job while nine months pregnant.

 

On the same night that she loses her job, Maria has an ‘unsettling’ dream and wakes up deciding that she will not go into labour until she gets her job back. And so begins her ‘birth strike’.

 

Explaining the inspiration behind the idea, director Nikoleta Leousi revealed that she dreamt she was pregnant and didn’t want to give birth.

 

“It made me wonder, ‘What if someone could, or thought they could, control it?’ It was important to me to discover her path,” she says.

 

As for her motivation for making the movie, Nikoleta said she wants to use it to discuss the violation of maternity leave and birth benefits in modern Greece.

 

You can check out a three-minute preview video and more details through this link to Nikoleta’s Kickstarter page.

 

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