The Blue Cage documentary

About the Film – The Blue Cage

The Blue Cage is a deeply personal documentary exploring the hidden world of seafarers and the families who wait for them on shore. Filmed with an intimate, cinematic eye, it reveals the emotional cost of a life spent at sea — the sacrifices, separations, love, resilience, and unspoken loneliness that shape generations of maritime families.

Through real stories from real people, The Blue Cage uncovers the invisible “cage” created not by steel or ocean, but by duty, distance, and the unending pull of home. The film gives voice to wives, partners, children, and parents whose lives move in tides of departure and return, longing and reunion.

This is a documentary about work, but even more about love — the love that travels across oceans, and the bonds that hold families together even when the world keeps them apart.

If your life has ever been touched by the sea, The Blue Cage will feel like home.

The Blue Cage is available as a “pay what you want” stream.
The minimum price is 5€, but you are welcome to contribute more if you wish to support independent filmmaking and the stories of seafarers and their families.