Forget Me Not
- Sun Hee Engelstoft
- 1h 23m
- March 24, 2019 · Denmark, South Korea
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 24, 2019
- Original language
- Danish
- Spoken languages
- Danish, English, Korean
- Countries
- Denmark, South Korea
- Production
- Korean Film Council,Det Danske Filminstitut,DR,TV 2,Den Vestdanske Filmpulje,Final Cut for Real,New Danish Screen,DMZ Docs
- Director
- Sun Hee Engelstoft
- Producer
- Monica Hellström
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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