Foster Child
Foster Child
Watch Foster Child Online Free on Watchseries. 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.
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: Canada
- Director: Gil Cardinal
- Cast: Gil Cardinal, Don Cardinal,
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