Styx

5/29/2019

'Styx' reminds us of the plight of refugees who risk everything in the ocean, and the damage caused by bureaucracy and by-the-book policy. A work of nail-biting drama that is not only superbly executed but exceedingly timely, it is a film that deserves to be screened widely in Australia so it can be seen by all. - Jake Watt Read Jake's full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-styx-an-intense-nautical-morality-tale Head to https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/germanfilmfest for more German Film Festival reviews.

9/6/2019

**_A story about a choice between two equally untenable options_** >_the_ >_go home blacks_ >_refugees_ >_dirty immigrants_ >_asylum seekers_ >_sucking our country dry_ >_niggers with their hands out_ >_they smell strange_ >_savage_ >_messed up their country and now they want_ >_to mess ours up_ >_how do the words_ >_the dirty looks_ >_roll off your backs_ >_maybe because the blow is softer_ >_than a limb torn off_ - Warsan Shire; "Home" (2015) >_It was a rough coast, a coast of high cliffs and pounding waves; nature defended it. But it was__, when all was said and done, one of the coasts of a country that was a lifeboat, and that lifeboat was under siege by people who wanted to be taken on board. She thought to the southern shores of I