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Foster Child

5.0(2)198743m1

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.

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Status
Released
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Box office
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Language
Cree
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • foster child
  • biological mother
  • first nations
  • aboriginal
  • short film

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Director

Gil Cardinal

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Canada

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Release dates

  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical8 Mar 1987

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Foster Child was released on 8 March 1987.

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