The King Tide

The King Tide is a Canadian drama film, directed by Christian Sparkes and released in 2023. The film is set in a small island fishing village where a child turns up who has special, mystical powers, leading social order in the town to the brink of civil war as the residents disagree about whether the child was sent for a larger spiritual purpose. Plot Infant Isla turns up one day in a shipwrecked boat, and is adopted and raised by the town's mayor Bobby Bentham (Clayne Crawford) and his wife Grace (Lara Jean Chorostecki), whose pregnancy ended in miscarriage shortly before Isla's discovery. However, it is soon discovered that Isla has healing powers to cure any ailment suffered by those who are near her; swarms of fish also swim to her when she's in the water, thus protecting the town's food security because it guarantees that the local fishermen will always be able to catch fish they had long lost to larger corporate fishing boats from the mainland. Bobby, Grace and Grace's mother Faye (Frances Fisher) exploit Isla's power by carefully controlling access to her, essentially cementing their own status as the most powerful members of the community, but setting the town's doctor Beau (Aden Young) against them as Isla's power has essentially left him unemployed.