Maine Jewish Film Festival: The Waldheim Waltz
Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, MEAustria’s official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1986, when Austrian activists were protesting against Kurt Waldheim, filmmaker Ruth Beckermann was both protester and reporter, capturing confrontations between activists and Waldheim supporters. Thirty years later, Beckermann uses her footage, as well as contemporaneous news archives, to chronicle Waldheim’s run for […]