Another View 2018 / Styx / Germany, Austria 2018
A successful German doctor fulfils a long-held dream to sail across the Atlantic Ocean. She is prepared for anything – at least she thinks she is. However, her pilgrimage to Ascension Island is cut short when she comes across a boat overloaded with refugees.
Now in her mid-30s, Rike has everything a European could wish for – she’s successful, educated, and well provided for. Yet, as an overworked emergency doctor, she really needs time off and finally sets out alone from Gibraltar on a long-planned trip across the ocean in a small sailing boat. Her silent battle with the elements and sea currents, however, is soon interrupted when she encounters a refugee boat which doesn’t respond to radio contact. Rike will have to decide whether to continue her journey or try to attempt a rescue mission. But they won’t all fit in her boat… A visceral allegory of the modern world, this is the story of a confident woman who discovers that humanity ends in international waters.
Nikola Paggio
94 min / Color, DCP
Director Wolfgang Fischer
/ Screenplay Wolfgang Fischer, Ika Kuenzel
/ Dir. of Photography Benedict Neuenfels
/ Editor Monika Willi
/ Art Director Aza Gray
/ Producer Marcos Kantis, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny
/ Production Schiwago Film GmbH
/ Coproduction Amour Fou Vienna GmbH
/ Cast Susanne Wolff, Gedion Wekesa Oduor
/ Sales Beta Cinema GmbH
Wolfgang Fischer (b. 1970, Vienna, Austria). Selected filmography: Remake of the Remake (1999, doc.), What You Don’t See (Was du nicht siehst, 2009), The Bear (2013), “The Highway of Tears” (2014, TV series), Styx (2018)
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