Ruth Beckermann
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1952
- 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.
Filmography
Wax & Gold 2026
as Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
Favoriten 2024
Director, Producer, Writer
Strade perdute - Filmmaker 23 2023
Actor
Mutzenbacher 2022
as Self (voice), Director, Producer, Writer
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years 2020
as Herself
- Immer wieder Österreich
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
Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Jackson/Marker 4am 2012
Director, Producer, Script
American Passages 2011
Screenplay, Director
Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah 2006
Writer, Director
The Mozart Minute 2006
Director
Homemad(e) 2001
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
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
Credits from TMDB.