Forget Me Not
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Forget Me Not

What makes a mother give away her baby? This is the big question in Sun Hee Engelstoft’s poignant heartbreaker of a film about three Korean women who have become pregnant outside of marriage and are now hiding from the outside world until they give birth. They live in a shelter for unwed mothers on a South Korean island, where beautiful landscapes are in sharp contrast to the fierce dilemma that women go through: should they keep their children or give them up for adoption? Engelstoft has been given unique access to this particular shelter run by the strong-willed Mrs. Im, who fights for the girls’ independence but is up against a social structure and family tradition that leaves women in an impossible situation. Engelstoft’s sensitive portrait brings us close to a forbidden world and through her own experience as a Korean adoptee, she gives a deeply personal and extraordinary insight into a culture in which women can’t choose their own fate.

Overview

Release Date
Mar 24, 2019
Original Title
Forglem Mig Ej
Runtime
83 minutes
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Language
da
Production Companies
Final Cut for Real, Korean Film Council, DMZ Docs, Den Vestdanske Filmpulje, New Danish Screen, Det Danske Filminstitut, DR, TV 2
Production Countries
Denmark, South Korea