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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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 8, 1987
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada
- Director
- Gil Cardinal
- Cinematography
- Jim Jeffrey
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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