Foster Child

Directed by Gil Cardinal · Starring Gil Cardinal · 1987

Raised by a non-Indigenous foster family, Métis filmmaker Gil Cardinal sets out to find his birth mother and to understand why he was taken from her as a child.

A landmark, deeply personal documentary about identity, family and Canada's treatment of Indigenous children.

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 effort

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