29 min.

Gesproken talen: Nederlands, Engels en Tagolog, met Engelstalige ondertitels

Crew:

Director/camera/sound/editing: Thieu Kessels

Mentor: Jen Debauche

Editing advisors: Febe Simoens and Coen Hagenaars

Foley: Marius Huguenin-Dumittan

Sound mixing: Wolf Doyen and Boudewijn Scholten

Color grading: Samuel Hermand

Title design: Erik Kessels

Supervision, Hilde D’haeyere

Distribution: Maaike Vader Maiake

Poster design: Timo van Sark

29 min.

Spoken languages: Dutch, English, Tagalog, with English subtitles

During a voyage aboard a Dutch cargo ship crossing the Baltic Sea, the film observes life at sea among singing sailors, endless routines, and the constant rhythm of machines.

Filipino crew members spend up to ten months away from home, living and working together in a floating world of steel and repetition. How to make a cargo ship feel like home? How to build a life within such an isolated microcosm? The film explores the quiet absurdity of workers sharing confined spaces for months on end, where the relationship between place, time, and daily ritual becomes the subject itself.