“You lower your nets into a mystery, wait for the treasure to come to you.”

It’s a haunting, ancient structure — Stonehenge in sticks. And it hums with an ancient magic, trapping the fish as the tide runs out. Stanley Stanton’s is the last of the herring weirs on Nova Scotia’s Fundy shore — and the tide may be running out for him, too.

But as industrialization, overfishing and a proposed basalt quarry threaten the Digby Neck, the old, slow magic of Stanley’s weir may just hold the key to a sustainable future.

“poetic and deeply resonant”

— Atlantic Film Festival jury

“...wonderfully conveys a people’s

attachment to their place on the planet.” 

— Arthur Bull

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music by SANCTUARY