Laurent Roth

Amos Gitaï, la violence et l’histoire (2021)

Pierre Schoendoerffer: La peine des hommes (2018)

In 1986, Laurent Roth was able to finish his first longer work: Les yeux brûlés, a documentary about war photographers and cinematographers that honoured some of France's then still-living greats, while also fathoming the complex relationship between fil ...

A Time To Rest (2015)

Riad, a middle-aged man, holds a firearm shop in a neighbourhood of Beirut. When he meets up with his friends or goes hunting with them, it is often with the aim of evoking together their memories of the civil war fought in the Christian militia. They live ...

Ranger les photos (2010)

Fragments sur la grâce (2006)

A filmmaker and his crew try to enter the passionate world of Port-Royal and of Jansenism. Another Age of Louis XIV comes to life, the age of Pascal, Racine and of the "Friends of Truth". The film itself comes up against the unanswerable question of grace. ...

Those Facing Us (2001)

In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien, her companion and Mikael's friend. It contains hundreds of photographs from all over the world. While he is trave ...

Ave Maria (1987)

A blown wick, a rejected corner stone, multiplied loaves, mown wheat and the mower watching us. Some Bible verses illustrated by plans stolen in the countryside during the summer. ...

Les yeux brûlés (1986)

A young woman comes to Roissy airport to pick up a military canteen that has been returned to her. It is the effects and pictures of Jean Péraud, a reporter photographer who disappeared at Dien Bien Phu on May 8, 1954. Soon, the discussion begins between ...

The Angle of Our Wrists (2024)

When Théo arrives at Notre-Dame-des-Roses, Jean's world is turned upside down. Confident in the institution that claims to cure him of his homosexuality, he is fascinated by this new resident, who seems determined to follow no rules and run away to become ...

The Love Circus (2018)

Alberto is 40 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment complex where he works as a concierge. One day, a circus group settles near Alberto's residence, disturbing his everyday life and awakening his forgotten desire for independence and freedom. ...

On Tour (2010)

After leaving France in search of a better life in America, a television producer returns with a group of burlesque dancers to take the Paris club scene by storm. ...

The Trip To Algiers (2009)

When the War of Independence ends, a widow must find a roof for her six children. Luckily, a Frenchman about to leave offers her the house he is about to vacate. But a high-placed local bureaucrat does not agree to such a gift. After losing all hope of obt ...

Thawing Out (2009)

Léo is dragged to a nudist camping resort by his mother. Like most boys at the age of 12 or 13, being nude in public holds little appeal for Léo, who protests by wearing extra layers. Until he meets a certain special girl, who captures his heart and rele ...