FACING MECCA

Synopsis

Pensioner Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when the Syrian refugee is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife. Together they stumble into a bewildering forest of Swiss bureaucracy to which Roli finds a beautifully simple answer…

Director Biography

Jan-Eric Mack was born in 1983 in Trüllikon ZH, Switzerland. In 2001 he began an apprenticeship as a graphic designer at Atelier 22 in Winterthur. For his final thesis he won a Junior Award of the Swiss Graphic Designers association. From 2005 on he worked as a graphic designer with various ateliers. In 2009 he began studying film at the Zurich University of Arts (ZHdK).