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All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea

Feature length film Completed 2026

BFI Doc Society Production Fund

Director

Jeanie Finlay

 

Producer

Charlie Phillips

 

Producer

Jeanie Finlay

 

Co-Producer

Nadja Lapcevic

 

Co-Producer

Anke Peterson

 

 

The North-East of England, where the river meets the sea. Stan Rennie is the last of a long line of fishermen who have worked the same stretch of coastline for centuries.

When a vast tide of poisoned crabs and lobsters washes ashore like a biblical plague, Stan’s world is turned upside-down overnight, and he finds himself thrown into a battle for the future. Have the sins of the industrial past come back to haunt the present?

A wry, David and Goliath story about navigating through grief and finding power in community.

A film by Teessider Jeanie Finlay

CPH:DOX 2026 • Premiere

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