- Born in Germany, she was raised on a kibbutz in Israel, studying music and dance at the Juilliard School of Music and later studying film at the New School; her son is writer/editor Thomas Beller. She spent ten years making the documentary film _Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945, The (1991)_, an examination of German resistance to Hitler, which also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.
In 1993, President Richard von Weizsacker presented her with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the country's highest civilian award. She then began working on a new documentary film, The Burning Wall (2002), focusing on dissent and opposition to the communist regime in East Germany from 1949-1989. This film was released to critical acclaim in 2002.
- IMDb mini biography by: L. R. Unterborn<lunterborn@aol.com> - The Burning Wall won Best Documentary Feature award at The Hollywood Film Festival 2002, and The Anchorage International Film Festival, 2003.
Her feature documentary "In The Land of Pomegranates" opened at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in New York City, January 2018, and the Laemmle Music Box in Los Angeles in March, 2018. It was named "Movie of the Week" by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, March 11, 2018.
She is at work on her fourth feature documentary. (2019)
- IMDb mini biography by: Thomas Beller
- "Mother Goes to Hollywood," an account of Beller's experience as an Oscar nominee at the 64th Academy Awards ceremony, March 30, 1992, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, appeared in the New Yorker magazine, March 28th, 1993, written by her son, Thomas Beller, who accompanied her.
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