Foster Child (1987)

Overview : 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 : March 8, 1987

Runtime : 43m

Genre : Documentary  

Companies : ONF | NFB

Countries : Canada

Keywords : canada, indigenous, foster child, biological mother, first nations, aboriginal, short film