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.
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Foster Child was released in 1987 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 1 reviews, giving Foster Child (1987) an average rating of 64%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 60%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Foster Child a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 64%, Foster Child is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1987, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 1987 with similar scores include films like Prince of Darkness, Street Trash and Bandits.
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