Foster Child (1987)

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.

Released March 8, 1987 43 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Short

Keywords: tmdb.canada, tmdb.indigenous, tmdb.foster-child, tmdb.biological-mother, tmdb.first-nations, tmdb.aboriginal, mdblist.imdb-short + 10 more, mdblist.two-actors, tmdb.short-film, imdb.northwest-territories, imdb.native-canadian, imdb.metis, imdb.foster-child, imdb.alberta-canada, imdb.veteran, imdb.painter, imdb.incest