Matthias Luthardt

Matthias Luthardt (* 1972 in Leiden , Netherlands ) is a German film director .

Life

After studying German, Romance languages ​​and rhetoric in Tübingen, Paris and Hamburg (Master's thesis on Krzysztof Kieslowski's films ), Luthardt studied film directing at the Konrad Wolf University of Film and Television in Potsdam - Babelsberg and completed the master class for young European film producers in Ludwigsburg and Paris. His debut film Pingpong premiered in 2006 at the International Critics' Week "Semaine de la Critique" in Cannes and received several awards there and at other international film festivals (see below). Luthardt co-directed the documentary film Jesus loves you (Premiere Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Berlinale 2008 ) and directed the novel The Day I Met My Dead Man (SWR, debut in the third year 2008).

At the Berlinale 2009 , Luthardt was the jury chairman in the section "Perspektive Deutsches Kino" for the Franco-German Prize Dialogue en perspective .

In addition to working as a director and author, Matthias Luthardt teaches at film schools and Goethe Institutes in Germany and abroad.

In 2011, on behalf of Tom Tykwer and One Fine Day Films , he accompanied the development of the story and the shooting of a film in Nairobi / Kenya as a mentoring director.

Luthardt is a member of the European Film Academy .

Filmography (selection)

• 2018–19: The Fox (feature film)
• 2018: 24h Europe (co-director)
• 2017: 24 h Bavaria (co-director)
• 2016–17: Cinekino (documentary series iAv Arte GEIE)
• 2016: The Great Evolution (Documentary)
• 2015: CinéKino (documentary, iAv Arte GEIE)
• 2015: The great evolution (documentary about the artist and philosopher Fritz Schranz )
• 2014: 24 h Jerusalem (co-director)
• 2009: 24 h Berlin (co-director)
• 2008: The Day I Met My Dead Man (Feature Film)
• 2007: Jesus Loves You (documentary, co-director)
• 2006: Pingpong (feature film, also screenwriter)
• 2005: Summer Games (short film)
• 2004: People need hobbies (documentary)
• 2001: duds (short film)

Awards

• 2007 for ping-pong : Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award in the category “Best Feature Film”; Karlovy Vary International Film Festival , 4th Czech Television Independent Camera Prize
• 2006 for ping pong : SACD script award ; Young Critic Award of the pupil and student jury of the Franco-German Youth Office ; German Film Award for Best Screenplay at the Munich Film Festival ; “Debut Biber” for the best feature film debut at the Biberach Film Festival ; DEFA sponsorship award; First Steps Awards nomination “Full-length discovery”; Belgian TV broadcaster RTBF's award for best film at the Brussels Film Festival ; Jury Grand Prix Bronze Gryphon in the Y Gen section at the film festival in Giffoni, Italy; Nomination for the Fassbinder Prize of the European Film Academy as “best European discovery”.
• 2004 for people need hobbies : nomination "Silver Wolf Award" at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ( IDFA )

Web links

• Matthias Luthardt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Website for the film pingpong
• Website Matthias Luthardt