(Foster Child)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Canada

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

43 minutes

Year:

1987

Directors:

Gil Cardinal

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Production companies:

ONF | NFB

Actors:

Himself

Himself

Crews:

Director of Photography

Editor

Executive Producer

Associate Editor

Sound Editor