Facing mecca short film

Red light, coin operated, kayayo and lost face receive audience awards. Together they stumble into a bewildering forest of swiss bureaucracy to which roli finds a beautifully simple answer. The academy of motion picture arts and sciences has narrowed this years liveaction short film race to 10 contenders. Facing mecca pensioner roli comes to fareed s assistance when the syrian refugee is faced with the burial of his muslim wife. Palm springs international shortfest, and toronto international film festivals. A short film about life at a prestigious hbcu known as the cultural epicenter of black excellence. Together they stumble into a bewildering forest of swiss bureaucracy to. Watch facing mecca online vimeo on demand on vimeo. Facing mecca best short film swiss film award quartz 2018. Facing mecca schweizer kulturpreise des bundesamtes fur kultur. Pensioner roli comes to fareeds assistance when the syrian refugee is faced with the burial of his muslim wife. The 2017 palm springs international shortfest announced its festival award winners on sunday, june 25, 2017, with swiss film facing mecca directed by janeric mack winning the prize for the best of festival award. Catch films as short as two minutes or as long as nearly a half hour from near and far in upcoming rochester festival. Studio hamburg nachwuchspreis, studio hamburg nachwuchspreis bester kurzfilm 2018 nomination palm springs, palm springs international shortfest, best student live.

The academys short films and animation branch selected 10 liveaction shorts out of 165 qualified submissions to contend for. Two american university film schools are represented on this years oscar shortlist for best live action short film, which have to win film festival awards to qualify. Facing mecca palm springs international film festival. Paris, ecu the european independent film festival, best student film 2018. But even family graves are exhumed after 25 years and allocated anew. Facing mecca captured a pair of awards, including best of festival, at the 2017 palm springs international shortfest during the june 25 closing ceremony at the camelot theatres in palm springs palm springs shortfest, the largest festival of its kind and featuring the only short film market in north america, screened 338 short films along with more than 4,200 filmmaker submissions available.

Facing mecca director jan ericmack was also awarded. For muslims this disturbance of peace is an absolute taboo. If you live south of the equator, do you look northeast or directly east. Facing mecca pensioner roli comes to fareeds assistance when the syrian.

Jack garners top picks for rochester international film fest. Love is a short film describing affection in 3 different chapters, through an impact on a distant solar system. Originally muhammad instructed muslims to face jerusalem when praying. The head vanishes, dekalb elementary receive top jury awards. The ticket is a tale about the greek economic crisis told through the perspective of a ticket passed down through various hands, each struggling with. Blue my mind and the paris opera garner main awards. Unimpressed by the councils tactical healdragging, roli offers a more creative idea. Palm springs 2017 shortfest winners list hollywood reporter. What do you do when you live, well east of mecca, say china, do you look west or continue to face to the east. I dont see anything in this short film that won our applauses, its nothing but a pretentious humanity crap, as long as you dont have to pay for other peoples.

Best short film went to janeric macks oscarshortlisted facing mecca, which also won best of the festival and best student film at palm springs, and earned a silver medal at the u. A muslim must pray facing mecca, and to pray with their. If the qiblah was just drawing a straight line from where youre standing, you would have 2 possible directions to pray in. This year, some 500 filmmakers from 60 countries braved record temperatures to attend the 23rd annual palm springs international shortfest june 2026, the largest short film festival and only. In the short fiction competition, greek film the ticket by haris stathopoulos took home the best film award, with the jury prize going to facing mecca by janeric mack from switzerland. Together they stumble into a bewildering forest of swiss bureaucracy to which roli finds beautifully simple answer. A film by janeric mack, starring peter freiburghaus, jay abdo, and ruth schwegler pensionar roli hilft dem syrischen fluchtling fareed. Pensioner roli comes to fareeds assistance when the syrian refugee is faced with a bewildering forest of swiss bureaucracy before he can bury his muslim wife.

Facing mecca triumphs at palm springs shortfest news. Facing mecca pensionar roli hilft dem syrischen fluchtling fareed, seine frau in. The academy of motion picture arts and sciences unveiled the 10 films that made the short list for best live action short on monday. The rule is that you pray in such a direction, such that if you draw a straight line from where you stand to the kaaba, yo. Councillor thomas kunzli assures everyone that theyll organise things for the following week. Palm springs, ca june 25, 2017 the 2017 palm springs international shortfest, the largest short film. Schweizer kurzfilme in winterthur facing mecca im oscarrennen. Jonerik macks facing mecca, in which a syrian refugee faces the swiss bureaucracy, claimed the best of festival award, the top jury prize, at the 2017 palm springs international shortfest. Facing mecca captured a pair of awards, including best of festival, at the 2017 palm springs international shortfest during the june 25 closing ceremony at the camelot theatres in palm springs. The oscarqualifying palm springs international shortfest. Swiss pensioner roli comes to his help and takes him to the hospital but the wife passes away shortly after, leaving the syrian refugee alone with two daughters. Destiny city film festival drama, international, short facing mecca. Facing mecca receives two awards including best of the festival.