Styx (2018)

Directed by

Wolfgang Fischer

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany, Austria

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

12

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 111 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An emergency doctor sailing alone across the Atlantic encounters a damaged boat packed with refugees. She must decide how to help while facing the limits of her own resources and the indifference of authorities.

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What happens

Styx is a 2018 German-Austrian drama film directed by Wolfgang Fischer. The film features Susanne Wolff as Rike, an emergency doctor who is sailing her yacht solo off North Africa when she comes across a boat full of asylum seekers in distress after a storm has damaged their vessel. Styx was screened in the Panorama section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. It was highly praised by critics and won many awards, including at the German Directors Guild Awards, the German Film Awards, Boulder International Film Festival, and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Ljubljana International Film Festival, and was nominated for many others. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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