The woman and the sea: A young female emergency doctor decides to fulfil her biggest dream, sailing alone on her sailboat for the Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean, close to the African shores. Instead, she finds herself in the heart of a tragedy when, after a storm, she gets closer to a stricken refugee boat. If she doesn’t act fast enough, dozens of people will drown. Α shattering, claustrophobic allegory for personal responsibility in the heinous face of immigration, the uncharted, dark waters of every “official” state policy, and the fluid border between Heaven and the Underworld.
Styx
Styx
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- Direction: Wolfgang Fischer
- Script: Wolfgang Fischer, Ika Künzel
- Cinematography: Benedict Neuenfels
- Editing: Monika Willi
- Sound: Uwe Dresch, Andre Zimmermann, Andreas Turnwald
- Music: Dirk von Lowtzow
- Actors: Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa, Alexander Beyer, Inga Birkenfeld, Anika Menger
- Production: Schiwago Film GmbH
- Producers: Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny
- Co-production: Amour Fou Vienna
- Co-producers: Alexander Dumreicher – Ivanceanu, Bady Minck
- Art Direction: Wolfgang Fischer, Ika Künzel, Benedict Neuenfels
- Costumes: Nicole Fischnaller
- Camera: Andreas Erben, Kalle Kallovsky, Phillip Wölke
- Make Up: Elke Hahn
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Germany, Austria
- Production Year: 2018
- Duration: 94΄
- Distribution in Greece: Weird Wave, petros@weirdwave.gr
- Contact: Beta Cinema, beta@betacinema.com
- Awards/Distinctions: Heiner Carow Prize & Label Europa Cinemas & Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Berlin International Film Festival (2018) Creative Energy Award – Emden International Film Festival (2018) Audience Award & Flying Ox – Schwerin Art of Film Festival (2018) Triton Award – Valletta Film Festival (2018)
Wolfgang Fischer
Wolfgang Fischer was born in 1970 in Vienna, Austria. He studied Psychology and Painting at the University of Vienna and Film at the Art Academy of Düsseldorf and at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) in Cologne. Beside various teaching assignments he was working as an assistant for Paul Morrissey and Nan Hoover. He was awarded a scholarship by the Munich Screenplay Program and by Equinoxe Europe.
Filmography
2001 Grau (short)
2009 Was Du Nicht Siehst | What You Don't See
2018 Styx
2009 Was Du Nicht Siehst | What You Don't See
2018 Styx