Forget Me Not (2019) [N/A]
Release Date:
March 24, 2019
Original Title:
Forglem Mig Ej
Alternate Titles:
Adoptiert - Die Frage nach dem Warum
Forget Me Not-A Letter to My Mother
포겟 미 낫-엄마에게 쓰는 편지
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
DMZ Docs
DR
Den Vestdanske Filmpulje
Det Danske Filminstitut
Final Cut for Real
Korean Film Council
New Danish Screen
TV 2
Production Countries:
Denmark | South Korea
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 83
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.