Watch Streaming Foster Child (1987) : Movies Trailer 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. | ||
| Release Date | : | Mar 08, 1987 |
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| Genres | : | Documentary |
| Production Company | : | ONF | NFB |
| Production Countries | : | Canada |
| Casts | : | Gil Cardinal, Don Cardinal |
| Plot Keywords | : | canada, indigenous, foster child, biological mother, first nations, aboriginal, short |
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