Styx by Ika Künzel and Wolfgang Fischer

Germany / Austria 2018, 94 min., color, English, German, starring Susanne Wolff

The work of unrelenting intensity and technical brilliance tells the story of ER doctor Rike who is on a solo sailing turn to Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. When Rike comes across a sinking ship of refugees, she is quickly torn out of her contented and idealized world and must make a momentous decision.

Aptly named after the mythological river that separates the living from the dead, STYX is an astute modern day parable of Western indifference in the face of marginalized suffering.