Daniel Roher

Directing

Daniel Roher

Born 1993-01-01

Daniel Roher is a Canadian documentary film director from Toronto, Ontario. He is most noted for his 2019 film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band, which was the opening film of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Tuner poster
7.6

A gifted piano tuner's meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.

Tuner

2026

Tuner poster
7.6

A gifted piano tuner's meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.

Tuner

2026

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist poster
7.3

A father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity, and explores the most powerful technology humanity has ever created... and what's at stake if we get it wrong.

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist

2026

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NR

The rivalry between a scrappy startup and a dysfunctional Big Tech company racing to build the world’s first consumer time machine. The prize: control of reality itself. Maybe… The tech industry’s version of time travel doesn’t seem to work quite the way you’d expect.

Paradox Inc.

Blink poster
7.8

The Pelletier family sets out on an epic journey to see the beauty of the world when three of their four children are diagnosed with an incurable eye condition.

Blink

2024

No artwork available
NR

A charming jewel thief gives up the good life to help a mysterious woman as they plot a high-stakes score that’s worth a lot more than just money.

Positano

Navalny poster
7.3

Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery, he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.

Navalny

2022

Finding Fukue poster
9.0

A Canadian woman returns to Japan in order to solve the mystery of her long-lost friend.

Finding Fukue

2018

Finding Fukue poster
9.0

A Canadian woman returns to Japan in order to solve the mystery of her long-lost friend.

Finding Fukue

2018

Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band poster
6.8

A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson's young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band.

Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band

2020

Survivors Rowe poster
NR

For almost two decades, the Anglican Priest Ralph Rowe sexually abused First Nation boys in the north during his days as an Anglican minister. Though the true number will never be known, the documentary reports that Rowe molested as many as 500 children throughout northwestern Ontario.

Survivors Rowe

2015

Dilveen poster
NR

Dilveen is a Yazidi. Her story is captured in this harrowing short documentary that juxtaposes haunting hand-drawn animated sequences of the past, with glimpses of Dilveen's new life in Canada. Through her courage and strength, audiences will come to better understand the atrocities the Yazidi community continues to suffer through.

Dilveen

2018

Ghosts of Our Forest poster
NR

After an indigenous Ugandan tribe is violently removed from its forest home, the survivors are left to reconcile with the ghosts of their ancestors as they struggle to maintain their cultural identity.

Ghosts of Our Forest

2017

Ghosts of Our Forest poster
NR

After an indigenous Ugandan tribe is violently removed from its forest home, the survivors are left to reconcile with the ghosts of their ancestors as they struggle to maintain their cultural identity.

Ghosts of Our Forest

2017