Film makers take themselves too seriously says Roland Reber

‘Movie-making is like a conversation for me I pose questions to the audience and wait for the answers. Film makers take themselves too seriously, a nurse or a doctor is far more important, they behave like Gods while they are just having a conversation’ opined director Roland Reber here today. Reber’s six films are being shown in the Tribute Section of IFFI Goa 2009. At a press conference with his leading ladies Marina Anna Eich and Antje Nikola Monning, Reber told that he was a quick writer who never writes script in a normal way ‘as the scripts come to me, however, once the idea strikes, I finish it very fast’ added Reber.

Reber said that he was not very sure that his films will be accepted in India but experience at IFFI Goa was a revelation. ‘I was amazed by the intelligent response of the audience here’, said Reber. On being asked about possibility of a film on political issues the director said that only political topic that he may pick up for filming will be ‘the lie of 9/11 but I will bring it out as an intimate story’, he said.

The actress Marina Anna Eich said she went about her role in the Reber’s film by retaining her spontaneity. While Antje Nikola Monning said that living the roles was her way of approaching the character.

Roland Reber has written more than 20 theatre plays and scripts as well as texts and poems. In 1981 he founded the Theatre Institute and worked as director, author and actor. He was Head of the World Theatre Project (in the framework of the Decade for Cultural Development of the UNESCO and UN), which he founded in 1989 and worked, as director and author in Cairo, Mexico and the Caribbean. In 2003 his feature films The Room, Pentamagica and The Dark Side of our Inner Space were shown at the Calcutta International Film Festival. In IFFI Goa 2009 six of his films are being shown in the Tribute Section.

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