Daniel Roher
Canadian documentary film director
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Daniel Roher (/rɔːr/)[1] is a Canadian documentary film director from Toronto, Ontario.[2]
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Daniel Roher | |
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Roher at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival | |
| Born | 1993 |
| Occupation | Film director, producer, filmmaker |
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,[3] and his 2022 film Navalny, about the Russian opposition leader, lawyer, anti-corruption activist, and political prisoner Alexei Navalny, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.[4][5]
Early life
Roher grew up in midtown Toronto, in a Jewish family.[6] After graduating from Etobicoke School of the Arts, he studied for three semesters at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, USA.[7]
Career
His 2019 film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band was also screened at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival, where it was the winner of the Whistler Film Festival Documentary Award.[8] Roher and Eamonn O'Connor were Canadian Screen Award nominees for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, and Canadian Cinema Editors award nominees for Best Editing in a Documentary in 2020.[9]
Roher previously directed the short documentaries Survivors Rowe,[10] which was a CSA nominee for Best Documentary Program at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017,[11] and Sourtoe: The Story of the Sorry Cannibal, which was a CSA nominee for Best Direction in a Web Program or Series at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018.
In 2025, Roher directed Tuner, his first narrative fiction film.[12] The thriller starred Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman, Havana Rose Liu, Jean Reno, Lior Raz, and Tovah Feldshuh, and premiered at Telluride Film Festival.[13]
In December 2025, it was announced that Roher would co-direct The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, a documentary feature film about the future of AI.[13] The film, co-directed with Charlie Tyrell, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2026.
Filmography
- Sourtoe: The Story of the Sorry Cannibal (2016)
- Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band (2019)
- Navalny (2022)
- Blink (2024)[14]
- Tuner (2025)[15][16]
- The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026)