HALIFAX Director Phil Comeau says he s surprised to see how connected the descendants of Acadian settlers are to their heritage no matter where they live on this earth. It always amazes me how people in the diaspora can still feel part of a culture even if we ve been separated for 250 years, Comeau said in a recent interview. His 2019 documentary Belle-Ile in Acadie follows a pilgrimage of Acadians from Belle-Ile-en-Mer in Brittany, France, to the Maritime provinces for the Acadian World Congress, a festival of Acadian culture held every five years. Comeau, an Acadian born in Nova Scotia, said he wanted to explore themes of heritage and belonging in his most recent documentary, a pairing to his previous film about an Acadian gathering in France.