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Forget Me Not (2019)
Directed by Sun Hee Engelstoft
Documentary · 1h 23m
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.
Crew
- Director
- Sun Hee Engelstoft
- Editor
- Rebecca Lønqvist
- Producer
- Monica Hellström
Details
- Original title
- Forglem Mig Ej
- Release date
- 2019-03-24
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DA
- Spoken languages
- Danish, English, Korean
- Countries
- Denmark, South Korea
- Production
- Final Cut for Real, Korean Film Council, DMZ Docs, Den Vestdanske Filmpulje, New Danish Screen, Det Danske Filminstitut, DR, TV 2