Forget Me Not

Movie
TitleForglem Mig Ej
User score

9.3

Release dateMar 24, 2019
GenreDocumentary
DirectorSun Hee Engelstoft
Production countryDenmark, South Korea
Production companiesFinal Cut for Real, Korean Film Council, DMZ Docs, Den Vestdanske Filmpulje, New Danish Screen, Det Danske Filminstitut, DR, TV 2
Run time83 min.

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.

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