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Noir City Confidential (2004) / A Trip to the Moon (1902) / The Art of the Moving Picture / Peaks of Japanese Cinema / Cult Movies (1999) / The Phantom of the Opera (1925) / Writing the Photoplay / The French New Wave / Shock Cinema (1998) / His Girl Friday (1940) / The Cinema: Its Present Position and Future Possibilities / Silent Cinema & the Avant-Garde / Video Eyeball (1998) / El último hombre sobre la Tierra (1964) /
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Ruth Beckermann
Born
1 January 1952
Place
Vienna, Austria
Directing

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.

As director

Wax & Gold

2026 · Director

Favoriten

2024 · Director

Mutzenbacher

2022 · Director

Immer wieder Österreich

2020 · Director

The Waldheim Waltz

2018 · Director

The Dreamed Ones

2016 · Director

Those Who Go Those Who Stay

2013 · Director

Jackson/Marker 4am

2012 · Director

American Passages

2011 · Director

Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah

2006 · Director

The Mozart Minute

2006 · Director

Homemad(e)

2001 · Director

A Fleeting Passage to the Orient

1999 · Director

East of War

1996 · Director

Toward Jerusalem

1991 · Director

The Paper Bridge

1987 · Director

Return to Vienna

1983 · Director

The Steel Hammer Out There On the Grass

1981 · Director

Suddenly, A Strike

1978 · Director

Arena Squatted

1977 · Director

As actor

Wax & Gold

2026 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Strade perdute - Filmmaker 23

2023

Mutzenbacher

2022 · Self (voice)

Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years

2020 · Herself