Back to the New World is a 2008 documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 by Quebec films directors Isabelle Lavigne, Denys Desjardins

Denys Desjardins

Denys Desjardins , is a film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and teacher for more than fifteen years. After completing studies in literature, film and communications, he directed several acclaimed films.-Career:...

, Stéphane Thibault and Julie Perron.

Plot

Back to the New World follows the initiation of a group of French tourists into Amerindian life. They come to Québec to live “like real Indians” for an exotic weekend. They are guided by Armand “Silver Scalp” Caron, a retired civil servant and the sole inhabitant of Innusit village. He introduces his guests to the pleasures and pastimes of the First Nations. With a knowing wink and a hint at the “white man’s burden”. Back to the New World considers the general amnesia afflicting whites in relation to the Aboriginal question.