In Her Place

A weathered woman and her teenage daughter live in isolation on their farm until an affluent woman from the city comes to them for help.

In Her Place is a Canadian film. Directed by Albert Shin, the film premiered on September 4, 2014 in the Toronto International Film Festivals Discovery program.

Inspired by Korean cultures strong stigma against adoption, the film stars Kil Hae-Yeon and Ahn Ji-Hye as a mother and daughter living on a farm in Korea. When the teenage daughter becomes pregnant, a woman (Yoon Da-Kyung) arrives from Seoul to propose a secret adoption, conditional on her staying with them for the duration of the pregnancy so that she can hide the adoption when she returns to Seoul after the babys birth. The film was shot entirely in Korea.

Shin won the Scotiabank Jay Scott Prize at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2014 for the film. The film was included in the list of "Canadas Top Ten" feature films of 2014, selected by a panel of filmmakers and industry professionals organized by TIFF. The film also garnered several Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress (Ahn Ji Hye and Yoon Da Kyung) and Best Supporting Actress (Kil Hae Yeon).

A wealthy couple seeks to secretly adopt the unborn child of an impoverished and troubled rural teenager, in this slow-burning and ultimately shocking drama from writer-director Albert Shin.