<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The comprehensive <b class="">retrospective</b> of the films by well known Austrian Documentary Filmmaker </span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><b class="">Ruth Beckermann</b></font><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> will stop over in <b class="">Berlin</b>.</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Opening on April 19th 2018,</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><b class="">Kino Arsenal</b></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">is presenting a program of the 11 feature-length documentaries made by Ruth Beckermann between 1983 and 2018. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="DB901C8D-F521-4DEF-A6E6-74A58DCA3DC8" src="cid:E216E5CF-7227-4701-B00B-02A3C274C08F@local" class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Ruth Beckermann © Lukas Beck</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Ruth Beckermann has been making documentaries for 40 years. Her name
stands for a political cinema that explores Austria, Judaism, questions
of individual background and collective identity, as well as their
fractures and ambivalences, on the basis of precise observation. The
Nazi era, anti-Semitism, xenophobia and migration are subjects in all of
her works. From a trilogy of films about Jewish life (WIEN RETOUR, DIE
PAPIERENE BRÜCKE, NACH JERUSALEM) to her first and only feature film so
far, DIE GETRÄUMTEN, and her current film WALDHEIMS WALZER, for which
she has just won the Berlinale’s Documentary Award, Beckermann’s
multi-layered oeuvre has been characterized by multi-faceted passages
between the present and the past. Her examination of history always
takes place alongside present constellations. A journey usually
underlies her films, movement is their constitutive moment: the movement
of a journey, quest, thought process. Beckermann does not seek to find a
closed narrative form, but is consistently open to various approaches,
with her film practice becoming freer and more essayistic over the
years. She transmits her always personal perspective as an off-screen
narrator and commentator; her documentary work is distinguished by the
presence of her unmistakeable voice with its tinge of Viennese.
<br class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The film director will be present for a series of Q&As from 19th to
21st April thanks to the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">A book
about Beckermann’s oeuvre published in 2016 (by Alexander Horwath and
Michael Omasta) will be on sale at the box office.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class="">Kino Arsenal</b></font><br class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Potsdamer Straße 2</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">D-10785 Berlin</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Telefon: +49-30-26955-100</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="DFF0D2B7-0BB2-4257-B3AA-AF7733CDD2A1" src="cid:9B17A3A4-0B52-4AD0-85C0-ED551C6B32B5@local" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="195B511B-9B1C-4260-8324-0D91079F5628" src="cid:1E3DF597-6406-432B-BEAC-35A6F1AD8CE9@local" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="82E78F9D-3484-4FB1-8B94-31AA30BC8516" src="cid:4555530A-DE51-46B2-8EF6-948630124D3B@local" class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Paper Bridge | A fleeting passage to the Orient | Zorro’s Bar Mizwa © Ruth Beckermann / sixpackfilm</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">detailled schedule and informations about the singe films at </span><a href="http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/home.html" class="">Arsenal’s website</a></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">---------</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">for programers & curators</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">in case you are interested in presenting the films of Ruth Beckermann in your venue or cinema please find more details on program, terms & booking </span><a href="http://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/tourprogram/show/33" class="">here</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">---------</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="http://www.sixpackfilm.com" class="">www.sixpackfilm.com</a></span></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sixpackfilm" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="1976B088-D5B3-44F4-B574-92672B3AB89E" src="cid:2DD01C2D-AE17-413C-9F46-B1A089A61F6A@local" class=""> </a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>