Simon Rieth

Birth : , Paris, Ile-de-France, France

History

Simon Rieth was born in Paris in 1995 and grew up in Montpellier. By the age of 26 he had already made 6 short films (Feu mes frères, Saint-Jean, screened at Premiers Plans, Sans amour, whose screenplay was read at the Festival in 2018, Marave Challenge...) which all had screenings and won awards in dozens of festivals, notably the BFI Future Film Festival, the Beijing International Film Festival, the MECAL Barcelona IFF and the FIFIB. His first feature, Nos cérémonies, produced by Les Films du Poisson, had its world premiere as the only French film in competition at the 2022 Critics' Week.

Movies

Summer Scars
Summer Scars
Writer
Brothers Tony and Noé pass the long sweltering summer days playing games of chance and death… until the accident that will change their lives forever. Ten years later, now young adults and back in Royan, their paths cross that of Cassandra, their childhood love. But even after all this time, the brothers are still hiding a secret…
Summer Scars
Summer Scars
Director
Brothers Tony and Noé pass the long sweltering summer days playing games of chance and death… until the accident that will change their lives forever. Ten years later, now young adults and back in Royan, their paths cross that of Cassandra, their childhood love. But even after all this time, the brothers are still hiding a secret…
Marave Challenge
Marave Challenge
Director
For his birthday, Louison got an electromagnetic field detector.
Without Love
Without Love
Director
Villeveyrac, South of France. About thirty windmills dominate a vast burnt meadow. At the foot of one of them, Hugo and Anaïs have come to pay a last tribute to their childhood friend, Souleymane.
Diminishing Shine
Diminishing Shine
Writer
It's been one year since prince Diong has mysteriously vanished. As a revolt is rumbling, his sister Pauline receives a message from him.
Diminishing Shine
Diminishing Shine
Director
It's been one year since prince Diong has mysteriously vanished. As a revolt is rumbling, his sister Pauline receives a message from him.
Pour pas être seul
Pour pas être seul
Vincent is involved in the making of a video game called Soulkeeper in which he plays the main character, a knight that came back from the dead. For his first day on the set, he's being followed by a TV crew.
Mother Behold Your Sons
Mother Behold Your Sons
Director
A palace holds young people for eternity. Among them, Simon, Katia and Tony remember their last vacation.
Saint Jean
Saint Jean
Director
As the summer's drawing to an end, Yanis and Noé, two teenagers who are both fans of the rapper Jul, meet up one last time to say goodbye before school starts again. For Yanis, this will be the last day of his childhood.
Gone Brothers
Gone Brothers
Director
Hugo and Lara's love story ends under a burning sun, during a weekend in the garrigue.