Ruth Beckermann

Biography

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.

Directed

1. The Waldheim Waltz (2018) — Director
2. Mutzenbacher (2022) — Director
3. The Dreamed Ones (2016) — Director
4. Toward Jerusalem (1991) — Director
5. A Fleeting Passage to the Orient (1999) — Director
6. American Passages (2011) — Director
7. East of War (1996) — Director
8. Return to Vienna (1983) — Director
9. Homemad(e) (2001) — Director
10. Those Who Go Those Who Stay (2013) — Director
11. Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah (2006) — Director
12. Arena Squatted (1977) — Director
13. The Paper Bridge (1987) — Director
14. Favoriten (2024) — Director
15. The Mozart Minute (2006) — Director
16. The Steel Hammer Out There On the Grass (1981) — Director
17. Jackson/Marker 4am (2012) — Director
18. Suddenly, A Strike (1978) — Director
19. Immer wieder Österreich (2020) — Director
20. WAX & GOLD (2026) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Mutzenbacher (2022) — Self (voice)
2. Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years (2020) — Herself
3. Club 2 (1976) — Self
4. Strade perdute - Filmmaker 23 (2023)