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Romain Cogitore

French film director, screenwriter and photographer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ3440613 ↗
Source-derived summary

Romain Cogitore (born 2 February 1985) is a French film director, screenwriter and photographer. He wrote and directed the films 15 Lads (2011), Territory of Love (2018), and A Place to Fight For (2023).

Early life

Cogitore was born on 2 February 1985 in Alsace, France. His older brother, Clément Cogitore, is also a film director.

Career

Cogitore wrote and directed the feature films 15 Lads (2011), Territory of Love (2018), and A Place to Fight For (2023). He is also a photographer.

He was a member of the Caméra d'Or jury at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Romain Cogitore” as french film director, screenwriter and photographer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2011, 2018, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-02-02. The account is most persuasive where Romain, Cogitore and French can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as french film director, screenwriter and photographer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3440613. VIAF identifies the subject as 731154501849039210001. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985, 2011, 2018 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Romain Cogitore” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.