
Roman Kané
Acting
Biography
Roman Kané is an actor and director, known for Sunset Cemetery (2020), Le Redoutable (2017) and Waiting For The Barbarians (2017).
Known For

Franklin
In December 1776, Benjamin Franklin is world-famous for his electrical experiments. But his passion and power are put to the test when he embarks on a secret mission to France—with the fate of American independence hanging in the balance.

Godard Mon Amour
In 1967, during the making of “La Chinoise,” film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.

Reinventing Marvin
Telling the true story of Marvin Bijou, a young boy from a working-class family in a small village, who suffers constant bullying at school and home for being ‘different’ – too sensitive and too feminine. A chance encounter with a drama teacher opens the doors to a world that offers him the chance to escape his situation.

Capitaine Marleau
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.

Waiting for the Barbarians
Six strangers confront their uniquely 21st century anxieties with the help of a sorcerer in this playful performance art consciousness-bender-cum-ghost story about the search for meaning in the age of social media.

The Male Gaze: The Boy Is Mine
We wish to make him ours, to keep and to hold forever - but will the boy reciprocate? And is he everything we expected him to be? In these five tales from the UK, France, Sweden, Mexico and the USA, a variety of characters throw caution to the wind and take their chances on a fleeting moment. The short films are: Uneven [Impar] (2016); Wolves (2016); Johnny (2018); Debut (2016); Guardian (2018).

La papesse Jeanne
The journey of young Jeanne through mountains and faith, from the lonely forests to the plains of Rome.

Anemone and Columbine
A young boy and a young girl meet again. In the woods, they love each other one last time.

Silence du léopard
The day after a party where Mario, in a trance, danced all night, Amine and Victor, his two lovers, find him dead in his bed. Lost with their friends in a house in the middle of nowhere, all mutations become possible. And then there's a leopard on the horizon.

Johnny
Johnny is an alcoholic, Johnny is fatalistic, Johnny is tormented, Johnny isn’t able to behave, Johnny is impetuous, Johnny is moody, Johnny believes in nothing, Johnny is footloose, Johnny isn’t brave. But Aurélien doesn’t care because first and foremost Johnny is radiant.
Filmography
as Actor 2
as Aurélien (segment Johnny)
as Aurélien
as Pianist
as Florus
as Jaufré
as The young boy
as Mathieu
as Bastien Lanteri