A new documentary detailing the desecration of the Algonquin in Quebec by two filmmakers from Abitibi hit theatres this weekend.

Directors Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie film, The Invisible Nation/Le peuple invisible, is a National Film Board (NFB) production.

The film details the cultural annihilation that led to 80,000 Algonquin people dwindling down to just 9,000.

The NFB calls the film an “alarming indictment,” CBC News reports.

Desjardins hopes this documentary will move people in Quebec to question the conditions native people face in their society.

In an interview with CBC Radio in Montreal, Desjardins said the film not only exists to open the eyes of Quebecers to the treatment of the Algonquin and First Nations people but to also fight the current racism these people encounter.

“For 150 years, there was a very strong plan … to assimilate them and this is still going on,” Desjardins said, CBC News reports.

The Invisible Nation/Le people invisible is playing at select theatres across Quebec in French and in English at the Cinema du Parc in Montreal.






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