Ruth Beckermann
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.
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Movies (22)
Wax & Gold
2026 · Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
Favoriten
2024 · Director, Producer, Writer
Strade perdute - Filmmaker 23
2023
Mutzenbacher
2022 · Self (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years
2020 · Herself
Immer wieder Österreich
2020 · Director
The Waldheim Waltz
2018 · Director, Writer, Producer
The Dreamed Ones
2016 · Director, Producer, Writer
Those Who Go Those Who Stay
2013 · Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
Jackson/Marker 4am
2012 · Director, Script, Producer
American Passages
2011 · Director, Screenplay
Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah
2006 · Director, Writer
The Mozart Minute
2006 · Director
Homemad(e)
2001 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer
A Fleeting Passage to the Orient
1999 · Director, Writer
East of War
1996 · Director, Writer
Toward Jerusalem
1991 · Director, Writer
The Paper Bridge
1987 · Director, Writer
Return to Vienna
1983 · Director, Editor, Writer
The Steel Hammer Out There On the Grass
1981 · Director
Suddenly, A Strike
1978 · Director
Arena Squatted
1977 · Director