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Join celebrated documentary filmmaker Ruth Beckermann for a screening of her award-winning film The Waldheim Waltz (2018), followed by a Q&A, chaired by Dr Katya Krylova.
Renowned Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann will be coming to the University May Festival for a film screening, followed by a Q&A, of her latest critically-acclaimed film The Waldheim Waltz.
The Waldheim Waltz (2018) focuses on the international scandal sparked in the late 1980s by former UN Secretary General and then Austrian president Kurt Waldheim’s deception about his Nazi past. The film has won a host of international awards, including the Berlin International Film Festival 2018 Glashütte Original Documentary Award, and the 2019 Austrian Film Prize for Best Documentary Film.
In interviews, Ruth Beckermann has repeatedly stressed the topicality of The Waldheim Waltz, calling it 'a film about truth and lies or "alternative facts"'.
The film screening will be followed by a Q&A, chaired by Dr Katya Krylova, Lecturer in German, Film and Visual Culture, and Co-Director of the George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture.
Hosted by the VIEW programme of the George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture, with the generous support of the Austrian Cultural Forum London and the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, London.
Further details available via the Director's Cut website: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/directorscut/profiles/beckermann/
3-5pm, 25th May 2019 Auditorium, King's College Conference Centre.
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- King's Conference Centre - Auditorium
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This is a FREE event. No booking required.
For further information contact: katya.krylova@abdn.ac.uk