Styx (film)

Styx
Film poster
Directed byWolfgang Fischer
Written byWolfgang Fischer
Ika Künzel
Produced byMarcos Kantis
Martin Lehwald
Michal Pokorny
Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
Bady Minck
StarringSusanne Wolff
Gedion Oduor Wekesa
CinematographyBenedict Neuenfels
Edited byMonika Willi
Music byDirk von Lowtzow
Production
company
Schiwago Film
Distributed byBeta Cinema
Release date
  • 16 February 2018 (2018-02-16) (Berlin)
Running time
95 minutes
CountriesGermany
Austria
LanguagesEnglish
German

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.