FORGET ME NOT
A film by Sun Hee Engelstoft
2019, 83 minutes
2019, 83 minutes
No. 312
Documentary
Documentary
Description
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.
Festivals
Official Selection, CPH:DOX
Official Selection, Budapest International Documentary Festival
Official Selection, Her Docs Film Festival
Official Selection, JAYU Human Rights Film Festival
Official Selection, Budapest International Documentary Festival
Official Selection, Her Docs Film Festival
Official Selection, JAYU Human Rights Film Festival
