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  • 3/10
  • RUNTIME: 0h 43m
  • COUNTRIES: Canada
  • Subtitles: English

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. Read More

Watch Foster Child online. Featuring Gil Cardinal and Don Cardinal, Foster Child is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 3. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Canada and was released on 1987. Foster Child was directed by Gil Cardinal. Read Less