Facing Mecca ambient background
CinebyCineby
Facing Mecca backdrop

Facing Mecca

Facing Mecca
★ 6.4/10•2017•25m•16•Drama

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 beautifully simple answer.

Anna Schinz · Writer

Jan-Eric Mack · Writer

Jan-Eric Mack · Director

StatusReleased
Runtime25m
LanguageDE
Release DateJun 21, 2017

Actors

Jay Abdo

Fareed

Ali Al-Fatlawi

Translator

Rolf Brügger

Municipal Council

Sarah Bürge

Municipal Council

Irene Eichenberger

Municipal Council

Enver Fazliji

Islamic Mortician

Peter Freiburghaus

Peter Freiburghaus

Roli

Rahel Hubacher

Rahel Hubacher

Cashier

Merav Ibrahim

Yara

Saya Ibrahim

Israa

Nina Iseli

Municipal Council

Christoph Lanz

Geomatician

Nicolas Rosat

Thomas Künzli

Ruth Schwegler

Ruth Schwegler

Doris

Maria Kaur Bedi

Lady at the Counter

Erich Zbinden

Municipal Council

Recommendations

Sirocco
Above the Rim
The Young One
Georgetown
Personal Effects
The Shrouds
The Nest
All Day and a Night
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything
Not Without My Daughter
Reservation Road
3 Days to Kill
Salomé
40 Acres
Flashbacks of a Fool
Kisses
The Sheltering Sky
The Nile Hilton Incident
Hunting Season
Black Site

Similars

All Quiet on the Western Front
Volver
Cargo
Hotel Rwanda
That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles
The Last Mission of Demolitions Man Cloud
Civil Service
Between Us
And the Pain Remains
Good Bye, Lenin!
Aporia
Love and Rage
Faust
Birth
No Foul Game: Hysteria Raid
Mortality
Nila's Dream in the Garden of Eden
Bödeln
Death of a Salesman: A DELTARUNE Short FIlm
Mr. Death