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.
Biography from TMDB.
- January 1, 1993 (33)
- Director and writer, also actor and editor
- 5 on MovieCove · 12 credits in all
What are Daniel Roher's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Ideas and Bonds.
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 5
Light 0 · Serious 4 · Dark 1
A split, not a type: Grounded 3 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 1
Gentle 2 · Charged 2 · Intense 1
Steady 3 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 2
A split, not a type: Easy watch 3 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 2
Resolved 4 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous2
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Daniel Roher's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on HBO Max (2).
Subscription and free streaming for Daniel Roher's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
12 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page; 2 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Tuner(2025)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Blink(2024)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
Navalny(2022)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Once Were Brothers(2019)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Finding Fukue (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Dilveen (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Ghosts of Our Forest (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Survivors Rowe (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Paradox Inc. (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Paradox Inc. (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Positano (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 12 titles, 9 of them dated from 2015 to 2026.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
an Oscar, a BAFTA Award and 2 other major awards from 6 major nominations, 2022–2023.
- Oscar, won · Best Documentary Feature
- BAFTA Award, won · Best Documentary
+1 other major body · 1 nomination
- Directors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
- Sundance award, won · U.S. Documentary
- Sundance award, won
- Sundance award, nominated · Documentary
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Daniel Roher's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 88th percentile, the median of all 5; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 85th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th1
Shape of the crowd
None of their 5 titles divides audiences: 5 are Crowd Pleasers.
- Crowd Pleaser5
Reviewers score the atmosphere 73/100 and the pacing 64/100 in their films, across 5 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Daniel Roher work with?
People who share at least 2 of Daniel Roher's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Marius De Vries shares the most, 3.
Composers, cinematographers and editors
- Marius De VriesShared titles: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026), Tuner (2025), Navalny (2022)See all 3 shared titles with Marius De Vries
- Lowell A. MeyerShared titles: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026), Tuner (2025)See all 2 shared titles with Lowell A. Meyer
- Matt RobertsonShared titles: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026), Navalny (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Matt Robertson
- Eamonn O'ConnorShared titles: Navalny (2022), Once Were Brothers (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Eamonn O'Connor
Producers
- Diane BeckerShared titles: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026), Blink (2024), Navalny (2022)See all 3 shared titles with Diane Becker
- Mark NewtonShared titles: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026), Blink (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Mark Newton
- Shane BorisShared titles: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026), Navalny (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Shane Boris
- Melanie MillerShared titles: Blink (2024), Navalny (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Melanie Miller
