Directing
Ruth Beckermann
DE, IT, EN cinema · 22 credits
Born
1 January 1952 (age 74)
Birthplace
Vienna, Austria
The filmmaker and writer was born in Vienna, Austria. Her films include The Paper Bridge and East of War. Her film Those Who Go Those Who Stay won Best Documentary at the 2014 Diagonale in Graz. Two years later, The Dreamed Ones won Beat Feature Film at the same festival. The Waldheim Waltz received several prizes including the Glashütte Original – Documentary Award at the 2018 Berlinale and was also nominated as Austria’s entry for the Oscars. In 2022, MUTZENBACHER screened in the Encounters section of the Berlinale where it won the award for Best Film.
Known for
Filmography
Wax & Gold
as Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
Favoriten
Director, Producer, Writer
Mutzenbacher
as Self (voice), Director, Producer, Writer
The Waldheim Waltz
Director, Writer, Producer
The Dreamed Ones
Director, Producer, Writer
Those Who Go Those Who Stay
Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Jackson/Marker 4am
Director, Producer, Script
American Passages
Screenplay, Director
Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah
Writer, Director
The Mozart Minute
Director
Homemad(e)
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
A Fleeting Passage to the Orient
Director, Writer
East of War
Director, Writer
Toward Jerusalem
Director, Writer
The Paper Bridge
Director, Writer
Return to Vienna
Director, Editor, Writer
Arena Squatted
Director