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Matthias Luthardt (* 1972 in Leiden, Netherlands) is a German film director and script writer, based in Berlin.

Career Matthias Luthardt grew up in the Netherlands, Southern Germany and Hamburg. After his social service and a 6-months-residency in Lyon he studied German and French literature as well as Media Culture in Tübingen, Paris and Hamburg University (dissertation about the films of Krzysztof Kieslowski). In 1998 he started directing class at Film University Potsdam-Babelsberg. Among his teachers were Margarethe von Trotta, Andreas Dresen, Michael Ballhaus. In 2001/2002, Matthias Luthardt took part in the first Masterclass of the German-French Film Academy (Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris), tutored by German filmmakers Peter Sehr and Jan Schütte: workshops on film production, storytelling and scriptwriting, independent filmmaking and documentary film, taking place at the film academy in Ludwigsburg and the FEMIS in Paris. He finished Potsdam filmschool with his first feature film PINGPONG, premiered 2006 at Critics' Week in Cannes, winning the SACD-Award and Young Critics Award and a nomination as "European discovery" at the European Film Awards. He contributed to the episodic documentary JESUS LOVES YOU (Berlinale 2008) before realizing his second feature film MEMORY. In 2009, he took part in the multimedia documentary 24h Berlin, which portrays the city of Berlin, followed up by 24h Jerusalem in 2013, 24h Bavaria in 2017 and 24h Europe in 2018. Matthias Luthardt is regularly teaching at filmschools (such as Met Film School in Berlin) and cultural institutions in Germany and abroad (in German, English and French). In 2011, German film director Tom Tykwer asked him to supervise the script development and shooting of the Kenyan feature film SOMETHING NECESSARY, directed by Judy Kibinge. The year before, Luthardt had initiated and coproduced the independent feature film WHITE SHADOW, directed by Noaz Deshe, shot in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2013, won the "Lion of the Future"-Award and also screened at Sundance Film Festival 2014. In 2012, Matthias Luthardt spent three months in Tel Aviv as an artist-in-residence, invited by the Israel Film Fund and the Berlin-Brandenburg Film Commission. He is a member of the European Filmacademy.

Filmography 2019: The fox (German title: Der Fuchs; fiction) 2018: 24h Europe (documentary, co-director) 2017: 24 h Bavaria (German title: 24h Bayern; documentary, co-director) 2016–17: Cinekino (documentary series, co-directed with Laurent Heynemann) 2016: The Great Evolution (German title: Die große Evolution; documentary) 2015: CinéKino (two-part documentary, co-directed with Laurent Heynemann) 2014: 24 h Jerusalem (documentary, co-director) 2009: 24 h Berlin (documentary, co-director) 2008: Memory (German title: Der Tag, an dem ich meinen toten Mann traf; fiction) 2007: Jesus loves you (German title: Jesus liebt dich, co-director) 2006: Pingpong (Fiction) 2005: Summer games (German title: Sommerspiele; short film) 2004: We need hobbies (German title: Menschen brauchen Hobbies; documentary) 2001: Duds (German title: Blindgänger; short film)

Awards Pingpong 2007: Studio Hamburg Award "Best feature"; 4th Independent Camera Price by Czech TV at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2006: SACD-Award Cannes Film Festival (Best Screenplay); Young Critics Award Cannes Film Festival; Best Screenplay Award Munich Int. Film Festival; "Best debut feature" at Biberach Film Festival; DEFA-foundation-award; Nomination First Steps Awards; RTBF-Award "Best feature" at Brussels Int. Film Festival; Jury Grand Prix Bronze Gryphon at Giffoni Film Festival; Nomination Fassbinder-Award ("Best European discovery") at European Film Academy We need hobbies 2004: Nomination „Silver Wolf Award“ at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) External links Matthias Luthardt imdb