Facing Mecca
Director, Screenplay | 2017 | MA Film | 27 min
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
Jan-Eric Mack
Directing FictionMaster of Arts in Film 2017
Bachelor of Arts in Film 2013
Born in 1983 in Trüllikon, Switzerland. 2002-05 Trains as graphic designer. 2005-09 Works as graphic designer. 2009-13 BA in Film at ZHdK (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste), film department. 2014-17 MA in Feature Film Directing at ZHdK. Works as independent filmmaker and graphic designer in Zurich.
Screenplay, Director
2017 | Facing Mecca | Drama | 27 min | Switzerland
2016 | Periphery | Fiction | 81 min | Switzerland
Episode Sonam
2015 | King | Drama | 24 min | Switzerland
2014 | Wandelzeit - Eine Gletscherperformance | Documentary | 19 min | CH
Cadrage - Zücher Filmpreis / Kurzfilmpreis der Stadt Winterthur / 2014
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur / Kamerapreis, DOP: Aurelio Buchwalder / 2014
2013 | Alfonso | Drama, Comedy | 18.5 min | Switzerland
2012 | Island | Fiction | 20 min | ZHdK | CH
2012 | Dialoge 11 | Experimental | 21 min | CH
2011 | Magnetfelder | 11 min | ZHdK | CH
2010 | Oskar und die fliegende Kiste | Documentary | 10 min | ZHdK | CH
2009 | Ausweg | Fiction | 3 min | CH
Screenplay
2010 | Schub auf Maximum | Fiction | 5 min | jantofilm | CH
Director: Rolf Hellat
2009 | Irrlichter | Fiction | 10 min | CH
Director: Simon Gutknecht
Co-Director
2009 | Ronaldo | Children | 13 min | Co-Director | Switzerland
Regie & Kamera: Jan Mettler