Le royaume perdu (2019)

Arambe or Norembega is the name of a place cited by several European explorers since the 15th century, notably by Giovanni da Verrazano sent to the New World in 1524 in the service of the King of France. Travel accounts describe it as a marvellous kingdom situated on an immense presque isle, where could be found gold in abundance and a city with a palace built of stone upstream of a river, the land of Norembega, called Akenóntsi (Acadie) by the Cayuga and Mi'kmaq peoples. And yet, even Samuel de Champlain was never able to locate this fabulous Kingdom of Acadie to the north of Florida and Virginia in 1604. It's by leafing through an atlas of New France twenty years ago that the history buff Eric Allard became interested in this mysterious place. After several years of research, he proposes a new theory: the Kingdom of Acadie is situated in Nova Scotia. Directed by Julien Cadieux, the documentary "Le royaume perdu" sheds a new light on the history of the European and African presence in Canada. According to the journalist Sylvie Mousseau "The beauty of the scenery, the incredible research of Eric Allard which in a way shatters certain historical facts contribute to make this film a very pertinent work".