Synopsis

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.

Dec 17, 2020 at 11:51 PM

Original title: Forglem Mig Ej

Released: Mar 24, 2019

Studios: Final Cut for Real, Korean Film Council, DMZ Docs, Den Vestdanske Filmpulje, New Danish Screen, Det Danske Filminstitut, DR, TV 2

Countries: Denmark, South Korea