 He worked as Director's assistant at "Schaubühne Berlin" (1987–1989) and at "Munich Kammerspiele" (1989).His first feature film "Someone is Sleeping in My Pain", a contemporary version of Shakespeare's "Macbeth", was shot in New York and Yemen with tribal warriors (2000–2001).In 2003/2004 Roes made the documentary film "City of Happiness" about the present situation of young men in Algeria.