Seamen's club
Tristan BORDMANN
2025 - 52 min - HD
In coproduction with Les Docs du Nord, France 3 Hauts-de-France and Weo
Production assitance of CNC, Région Grand Est, Pictanovo and Procirep-Angoa
Director : Tristan Bordmann
Assistant director : Rémi Pons
Image : Tristan Bordmann
Editing : Benoît Poncelin de Raucourt
Sound and original music : Adrien Fontaine
Sound editing and mixing : Michel Divine
Calibration : Arnaud Gauchard
Producers : Marie Dumoulin (Les Docs du Nord) et Milana Christitch (Ana Films)
SYNOPSIS
Located on the edge of the world's busiest shipping lane, the port of Dunkirk is constantly expanding. Here, the ceaseless flow of millions of containers filled with goods, transported by ship and then by truck, makes our globalized consumer society visible and tangible.
Lost amidst this colossal machine, the Seamen's Club strives to make the daily lives of visiting seafarers, dockworkers, and truck drivers more humane. For years, Patricia, her brother Lorenzo, and a team of volunteers have welcomed all these maritime workers to their prefabricated community bar. This modest yet essential refuge, a place of mutual support and solidarity, is now in jeopardy.
THE DIRECTOR
Tristan Bordmann grew up in Alsace and the Vosges department, where he has lived since 2015.
He obtained his baccalaureate (science stream) in 2001. He earned a two-year technical degree (BTS) in Cinema in Rouen in 2003. He continued his studies with a bachelor's and master's degree in Cinema at Paris III and Paris VII.
Since 2011, he has worked as a cinematographer. He was notably the director of photography for the films *L'Été de Giacomo* (2012) and *Bientôt les jours heureux* by Alessandro Comodin.
He has also directed his own films: *Le Monde du silence* (2013), *Voyage en Astrylie*, and *La chanson de Guigemar* (2024). Tristan also explores documentary filmmaking with *La Montée impossible* (2018) and *Seamen’s Club* (2023).
