PRESS REVIEWS (excerpt)

  • „The films of Roland Reber and his small committed team are discoveries of an independent cinema which is rare in the international film community“ (Feuilleton, Süddeutsche Zeitung)
  • „wtp is sort of a Gallic village oft he unbending ones in the middle of the film industry empire.“ (Passauer Neue Presse)
  • „Films from  wtp international are sensual and philosophical, abstract and precise, on the one hand fascinating, on the other hand almost crackbrained.“ (filmstarts.de)
  • „wtp films with the collective dedication of its team have become an unmistakable trade mark.“(Blickpunkt:Film)
  • „…Unicum in the German cinema landscape…“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
  • „Films from  wtp international are sensual and philosophical, abstract and precise, on the one hand fascinating, on the other hand almost crackbrained.“ (filmstarts.de)
  • „Films that dare to question life.“ (Times of India)
  • „Director, producer, writer, cinematographer and actor Roland Reber is definitely one of a kind in his own field.“ (New Age, Dakha, Bangladesh)
  • “If you meet 10 film enthusiasts in the Nandan complex in the first couple of days in this year’s festival , at least six of them will talk to you about the German films on offer: Yes, they are turning out to be the surprise package of this year’s selection. Colourful, vibrant, radical, dark, intriguing the short listed German films of the recent past have more than found a favour with the local audience.. Three of the German films on offer come from the same production house – wtp international filmproduction –. …The best part  about the films is that all three are on radically different themes –  the multiple award winning psycho-thriller the room, the comedy Pentamagica and the tragedy The Dark Side of our Inner Space.”“ (Times of India, Pratim D. Gupta)
  • „The bright Side of Reber’s Film. Search for life and for that matter reality is all that Roland Reber, German filmdirector intends to illuminate through his trilogy being screened at 9th Kolkata Film Festival 2003.““ (Daily Bulletin, Calcutta Film Festival)

  •  „…a clever mix of everyday wisdom, media satire and erotic farce.” (Filmecho)
  • „Taste of Life is a preaching and a calendar motto, a comedy sketch and a video clip, a musical and a sex film, and of course as well life coaching“ (Kino-zeit.de)
  • “Really big cinema…. 4,5 of 5 stars.” (sneakfilm.de)
  • „… due to various shrilly and absurde scenes the film is an enrichment for German cinema.“ (film-rezensionen.de)
  •  „Consequently subversive!“ (Filmdienst)
  • „Cheeky, independent, wild mix.“ (Blickpunkt Film)
  • „Worth seeing!“ (Münchner Merkur)
  •  „One of the most revealingly honest and light footed society potpourris of all times.“ (Deadline Magazin)
  • „A libertarian pamphlet!“ (Brussels International Film Festival)
  • “ The collage is a brazen plea not to bend by societies norms/influences.“ (TV Spielfilm)

  • As if David Lynch and Helge Schneider would have worked together. “ (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
  •  „…one never forgets a Roland Reber film. They are special… A film that shows that there is much more between heaven and earth no filmschool wisdom could ever dream of.” (kino-zeit.de)
  •  “In this intimate play, which isn’t limited by film school teachings and has numerous visual effects obtained by complex post production, slumbers the anarchistic independent spirit of Helge Schneider, Christoph Schlingensief, Luis Buñuel and Lars von Trier set in a “Eyes Wide Shut” backdrop.” (Blickpunkt:Film)
  • „Sometimes revealingly funny, then sensually erotic. Somnambulistic soul striptease!“ (Deadline Film magazine)
  •  “A high for all the senses!” (zelluloid.de)
  •  „Also the music is worth mentioning in Illusion. In a mixture between most different styles, Antje Nikola Mönning not only succeeds in emphasizing the atmosphere in the Bar, but especially gives to each different dream world a very particular background music “ (Cinetastic.de)
  • „…hypnotizing images! An unconventional, special film.“ (Virus Magazin)
  • „Highly erotic ensemble-drama about eight people who are fleeing from their everyday life into a bar and devote themselves to their sexual fantasies.“ (kino.de)

  • “The films of Roland Reber and his small committed team are discoveries of an independent cinema which are rare in the international film community.”(Feuilleton, Süddeutsche Zeitung)
  • “Masterpiece. A project, which discribes the most intensive psychological intimate play of the last years“. (Deadline filmmagazin)
  • „‚The truth of lie‘ is nightmarish and fascinating.  The team around Roland Reber succeeded in making an atmospheric and  close narrated thriller, somewhere between the wild charme of the German legend of author’s films Klaus Lemke and the dark sensuality of the French Horrorfilm “Martyrs”.“ (Filmstarts.de)
  • „The truth of lie“ impresses the audience in an erotic-aesthetical aspect.“ (Filmecho/Filmwoche)
  • “This pearl of a weird but wonderful art house movie focusses, in a minimalistic way, on the perfect treachery.” (digitalvd.de, Jean Lüdeke)
  • “‘The truth of lie’ is sometimes sensitive, sometimes shockingly merciless but always relentlessly unconventional… A kind of ‘master puzzle‘ of a movie.“ (movieworlds.com)
  • “Made completely without using any government funding, they have once again created – with very limited resources a work that will most definitely ensure controversial discussions.” (cinetastic.de)
  • „wtp has arrived on the big screen!… Shedding light onto human abyss is one of Roland Rebers great features. He just changed his style a bit.“
    (filmjournalisten.de)

  • „Scandal film.“ (Bild)
  • „Among the most exciting which German cinema currently offers.“ (Filmstarts.de)
  • „The most popular film at this years International Film Festival of India.“ (Satinder Mohan, Advisory Panel member, Central Board of Film Certification)
  • „Ironic essay on feminine horniness and emotions, where on the search of the true feminine self, love, lust and (self)deception are being dismanteled experimentally. (Blickpunkt:Film)
  • “Angels with dirty wings is an overdue moral lesson.“ (filmjournalisten.de, Julian Reischl)
  • „Antje Nikola Mönning succeeded in the acting surprise of the year!“ (BILD TV)
  • „The film is sensual, erotic and very provocative. It also represents a new and wonderful level of maturity in everything from the photography, to the script, the acting and of course the masterful and creative direction.“ (Gordon Weaver, former Vice-President of Paramount)
  • “Antje Nikola Mönning wows audience.” (Popcorn Bollywood)
  • “Reber is real food for the mind for our rotten times.” (Goan Observer)
  • „The movies of wtp international have already become an unmistakable trademark.“ (Blickpunkt: Film)
  • “Easy Rider on the way to sexual self-discovery.” (Abendzeitung)

  • “Roland Reber and his team wtp international are famous for their difference. They are actually the splinter in the foot of German cinema.” (Festival International du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal/Canada, Julien Fonfrède – Programming Director)
  • „The extraordinary work convinces as an intelligent sweeping blow at a life directed by the media, traditions, education and stuck gender roles, directed with cutting irony.“ (filmstart.biz, Carlos Corbell)
  • “One can only hate or love the film… The film is at the same time a shrill revue, a cutting media criticism, a philosophical quest for meaning and an extremely alienated ARTwork, which has only one thing in mind –  to capture life in all its strangeness, absurdity and diversity and to project it onto the screen.” (kino-zeit.de, Joachim Kurz)
  • “As an inconvenient, innovative conceptual film MY DREAM pleasantly sticks out of the trite entertainment mush of the ready-made cinema.” (filmdienst, Stefan Volk)
  • “A brilliant, profitable experiment.” (Blickpunkt:Film)
  •  “Reber-Films are psychoanalytic and society critical art-sensations, poetic and pretentious, playful and ironic. “ (Sueddeutsche Zeitung / Feuilleton, Hans Schifferle)
  • „MY DREAM or LONELINESS NEVER WALKS ALONE is a profound masterpiece for an audience, that also likes to use its brain with the passive medium of film.“ (Sneakfilm.de, Michael Welsing)
  • „Without filmmakers like Reber it would only exist fast food for our brain, his pinch of chilli will expand my cineastic experience.” (filmjournalisten.de, Julian Reischl)

  • “A wild mélange of poetry and obscenity” (Sueddeutsche Zeitung)
  • „Fantastic film. Courageous. Human. Powerful.“ (Thomas Sing, Humanistic Scientist, University Augsburg)
  • “24 /7 THE PASSION OF LIFE is a true independent film which will polarize because of its provoking subject. A poetic Odyssey through Lust and Passion, between perversion and convention. In any case a film that is not ordinary, that will split the audience and throw the film world into a turmoil.” (Filmstarts.de, Alina Bacher)
  • “Roland Reber shows Lust in all its variations as pure, neutral and especially as an inherent human motion and dismantles our society as hypocritical and bigoted. Realised with minimal technical resources the film impresses even more because of its pictures. The viewer remains observer and doesn’t become participant to the happening.” (WIDESCREEN, Julian Reischl)
  • “24 / 7 THE PASSION OF LIFE is the successful work of a strongly emotional drama of new German Film-Art.” (Dietmar Wladek, Journalist)
  •  “Probably the first German movie, that bothers of showing S&M like it is. But it is not a mere S&M film. But a film about how society is handling sexuality itself. A film about religion, moral and double moral.” (Schlagzeilen, renowned S&M Magazine)

  • „Roland Reber: An Institution in direction. To say that Roland Reber is an exceptional director would be describing him half-heartedly. For the man is   himself a lesson to the entire fraternity of world cinema.“ (Hindustan Times)
  • “The Dark Side of Our Inner Space is a work of a true poet, indeed a stunning, brilliant cinematic achievement.“( Gordon Weaver, Film publicist, USA)
  • “This film is something very precious of new German cinema.” (Dietmar Wladek, Journalist)
  • German youth lead their life in the labyrinth of sheer entertainment without any anticipation and apprehension about life. At this point Reber’s films strike and illuminate the dark side of our inner soul.  (Shamshad Ali, Daily Bulletin, Calcutta Film Festival, complete article)

  • „It’s funny, witty, charming … a definite „feel good film“. (Gordon Weaver, Filmpublizist)
  • „„Exploring Inner Chaos Through The Paranormal.“ (Hindustan Times)
  • „ … The director sets out to portray a bizarre world of magic and spells. Everything in the film is strange: the dialogue, each woman’s life and the abrupt cutting of the montage. Reber wants to accentuate the absurdity of the world we are living in.” (The Egyptian Gazette)

  • “Intelligent cinema with an outstanding performance of main actors Mira Gittner and Marcus Grüsser.” (sneakfilm.de)
  • “With his team he elaborated a story during the ongoing shooting. And what a story! Visually interesting. Good actors. What more could we ask for?” (L’Orient Le Jour)
  • „ das Zimmer is a psychological adventure that taunts the mind by questioning one’sperception of reality along the way. The intriguing storyline is only surpassed by thewonderful direction and acting.” (Michael Moore, Raleigh Studios, Hollywood)
  • “…What is remarkable about this motion picture is that Reber manages to have thetraditional suspense and tension of a Hitchcock masterpiece, while at the same time exploring new and often uncharted territory by probing the human psyche on multiple, and often frightening, levels.” (Gordon Weaver, film publicist, USA)