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.

2017, short fiction 27′, written by Anna Schinz and Jan-Eric Mack, directed by Jan-Eric Mack, produced by Joël Jent for Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, cinematography by Jan Mettler, edited by Simon Gutknecht, original score composed by Dimitri Käch

Awards

Palm Springs Int. ShortFest 2017 – Best of Festival Award & Best Student Live Action Short Over 15 Minutes / 44th Student Academy Awards® – Student Academy Award Narrative / Int. Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2017 – Audience Award / 7th St. Cloud Filmfest 2017 – Jury Award / Fargo Film Festival 2018 – Winner Best Student Film / 5th Destiny City Film Festival and Screenplay Competition – Excellence in Narrative Short Storytelling / Swiss Film Award 2018 – Best Short Film / 51st WorldFest-Houston Film Festival 2018 – Remi Winner / 20th Ismailia Int. Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts 2018 – Jury Award / 9th Arlington International Film Festival 2019 – Best Narrative Short / 60th RIFF Rochester Int. Film Festival 2018 – Silver Shoestring Award / 13th European Independent Film Festival ÉCU 2018 – Best Student Award / 2nd Mud Film Awards 2018 – Best Short Live Action / DC Shorts – Audience Award / CILECT PRIZE 2018 – Best Fiction / Heart of Gold Intl. Short Film Festival – Best Short Film / 7th Evolution Mallorca Int. Film Festival – Special Mention / FILMZ Festival des Deutschen Kinos 2018 – Gewinner Wettbewerb Mittlellange Filme / 21e Nuit du Court de Lausanne 2018 – Prix RTS du public de la Tournée / Filmtage Friedrichshafen – Jetzt oder Nie! 2019 – Publikumspreis / 9th Arlington International Film Festival 2019 – Best Narrative Short / Algiers Int. Film Festival – Best Short Film / Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis 2018

Festivals (a selection)

44th Student Academy Awards 2017 / 23rd Palm Springs Int. ShortFest 2017 / 7th Québec City Film Festival 2017 / 17th Calgary Int. Film Festival 2017 / 21st Int. Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2017 / 15th TIFF Tirana Int. Film Festival 2017 / 16th RIFF Rome Independent Film Festival 2017 / 7th St. Cloud Filmfest Minnesota 2017 / 29th Aguilar de Campoo Int. Short Film Festival 2017 / 14th Boulder Int. Film Festival 2018 / 39th Max Ophüls Preis 2018 / 28th Bamberger Kurzfilmtage 2018 / 53rd Solothurner Filmtage 2018 / 27th Flickerfest Int. Short Film Festival 2018 / 18th Fargo Film Festival 2018 / 5th Destiny City Film Festival and Screenplay Competition 2018 / 2nd MONA Filmfestival Belgium 2018 / 19th Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2018 / 23rd Vilnius Int. Film Festival 2018 / 22nd REGARD Saguenay Int. Short Film Festival 2018 / 13th Festival Int. du Film Oriental de Genève 2018 / 60th Rochester Int. Film Festival 2018 / 20th Ismailia Int. Film Festival 2018 / 13th ÉCU European Independent Film Festival 2018 / 21st Brussels Short Film Festival 2018 / 19th Newport Beach Film Festival 2018 / 18th Tel Aviv Int. Student Film Festival 2018 / 51st WorldFest Houston 2018 / 58th Zlín Int. Film Festival for Children and Youth 2018 / 58th KFF Krakow Film Festival 2018 / 47th Kyiv Int. Film Festival Molodist 2018 / Les Nuits en Or Paris 2018 / Ciné d’hier Paris 2018 / 18th Festival Int. du 7e Art Paris 2018 / 20th Brooklyn Film Festival 2018 / 12th Psarokokalo Int. Short Film Festival 2018 / 9th ONE Country ONE Film Int. Festival 2018 / 1st Indy Shorts Int. Film Festival Indianapolis 2018 / Edmonton Intl. Film Festival 2018 / DC Shorts Film Festival Washington 2018 / DokuFest Intl. Documentary & Shortfilmfestival 2018 / 2nd MUD Film Awards 2018 / Jozi Film Festival 2018 / 16th Shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival 2018 / 7th Evolution Int. Filmfestival Mallorca 2018 / 42nd Heart of Gold Film Festival 2018 / Kyoto Intl. Student Film & Video Festival 2019 / Pune Int. Film Festival Whistling Wood 2019 / Filmtage Friedrichshafen 2019 / Fresh Wave Film Festival Hong Kong 2019 / 9th Tournai Ramdam Festival Belgium / 49th Tampere Film Festival 2019 / Heart of Gold Int. Short Film Festival 2019 / 9th Arlington Int. Film Festival 2019