Foster Child
Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his becoming a foster child. An important figure in the history of Canadian Indigenous filmmaking, Gil Cardinal was born to a Métis mother but raised by a non-Indigenous foster family, and with this auto-biographical documentary he charts his efforts to find his biological mother and to understand why he was removed from her. Considered a milestone in documentary cinema, it addressed the country’s internal colonialism in a profoundly personal manner, winning a Special Jury Prize at Banff and multiple international awards.
Documentary
3.0
1 reviewsRuntime: 43 min.
Budget: N/A
Revenue: N/A
Release Date: 1987-03-08
Director(s): Gil Cardinal
Production: ONF | NFB
Languages: English
IMDB: tt0225786
