Simon Roca

Movies

The Soul Eater
Director of Photography
When the disappearance of children and bloody murders multiply in a small mountain village, an old legend shrouded in sulphur reappears… Commander Guardiano and Captain of the Gendarmerie De Rolan are forced to join forces to uncover the truth.
Evil Seaweed
Director of Photography
A scientist in yellow overalls is taking samples of green algae on a beach in Brittany. Lifting his mask, he suddenly drops down dead. There’s panic in the village – he’s not the first person to disappear, and the municipality suspects that toxic algae are the cause. Nevertheless, it’s out of the question to endanger the tourism industry or accuse intensive farming for this maleficent bloom. The mayor prefers to suspect the Parisian “bobos” who rent the Airbnb on the beach. But all it takes is one high tide for the dead to re-emerge from the seaweed carpet as zombies.
The Rite
Director of Photography
Anne divides her life between the primary school where she teaches and her home where she engages in a strange ritual with her son Simon. But her daughter Helena, whom she hasn’t seen in a long time, is in town for a special performance of The Rite of Spring.
Kandisha
Director of Photography
One summer evening, three childhood friends invoke the spirit of Kandisha, a vengeful creature from a Moroccan legend. The game quickly turns into a nightmare when their loved ones begin to disappear.
Old Fashioned
Director of Photography
Paul Château-Têtard, a 45-year-old bachelor from the best of Parisian nobility, has – for the first time in his life – to take the Metro, and even buy a ticket. It is with extraordinary luck that the beautiful young Ava happens to be sitting at the counter: a spark ignites and wedding bells begin ringing in the distance.
Jugé sans justice
Director of Photography
A father is arrested for murder and a kidnap attempt three years ago. Through the police station's one-way mirror, 16-year-old Claire is sure she recognizes Gustavo as the man who tried to kidnap her and killed her father while fleeing.
Should the Wind Drop
Director of Photography
International auditor Alain has arrived to appraise the airport of a small self-proclaimed republic in the Caucasus to green light its eventual reopening. Through Edgar, a local boy running a make-shift business in the airport, Alain will risk all to help this isolated territory to open up.
Curiosa
Cinematography
A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier
Sophia Antipolis
Director of Photography
Sophia Antipolis: a technopole on the French Riviera, a place where dreams should come true. But fear and despair lurk beneath the surface. Under a deceitful sun, five lives map out the haunting story of a young woman: Sophia.
9 Fingers
Director of Photography
In the middle of the night, Magloire is smoking a cigarette in an abandoned train station when the police shows up for an ID check. He starts running with no luggage, no future until he meets a dying man from whom he inherits a fortune. Magloire is now pursued by a gang. He becomes their hostage, but accomplice too. As he doesn’t anything to lose. Like someone who gets away with everything, someone with no expectations…
Panique au Sénat
Director of Photography
Following elections organized at short notice and a strange game of alliances, the new Senate president is an ecologist. His reign begins.
Struggle for Life
Director of Photography
Marc Châtaigne, an intern at the Ministry of Standards, is sent to French Guiana to implement European construction standards at Guyaneige: the first Amazonian ski slope, intended to boost tourism in French Guiana. There, he meets Tarzan, an attractive intern at the National Forestry Office, with whom he’ll get lost on a journey through the jungle that will take him far, far away…
The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu
Director of Photography
Hector meets Truquette on Bastille Day and becomes obsessed with seducing her. The plan is to get her to the seaside pronto. Pator is not complaining, especially if her friend Charlotte comes along for the ride. So off they go, down the country roads of a broke and broken France. Times are hard ! Suddenly the government cancels a month of summer. Everyone back to work! A wad of cash and two gun shots later, the group splits in two like France itself. But careering away from work in no way daunts the remaining trio, dead set on relocating the Bastille Girl and reveling in an endless summer.
Les secrets de l'invisible
Director of Photography
In a Paris in full economic slump, Jojo and Eugène have one after the other loving failures. And if all this was connected ? Our two infiltrated agents thus begin a investigation on young girls. We discover that the young girls are not always young and sometimes not even a girl.
Paris monopole
Director of Photography
Sabrinette, vitim of the crisis, looks for a flat. Not easy to find when we are a temporary worker, young, with untidy hair, or too much this, or not enough that. An injustice made for one is a threat made for all. When we look with the plan of Monopoly, we necessarily hope to fall on the lucky square.
French Kiss
Director of Photography
"Deep shit : listen in life chance only comes once, unless you’re lucky : then it can come twice. But for you it will only come once. So, you must chat to Kate the Amercain, where is she ?"
Changement de trottoir
Director of Photography
Neighbors
Cinematography
Violaine, a twenty-year-old young woman, spends her time photographing people in secret. One morning, when leaving her home, she discovers her neighbor, half dead. This event is going to upset her and to incite her to come out of her solitude to discover who is this man that she has probably saved.