SYNOPSIS
Sixteen-year-old Paul (Sebastian Urzendowsky) arrives at his uncle’s house uninvited. Having recently lost his father, he’s in search of an ideal world and intrudes on the seemingly perfect family. After rejecting him, Anna, his aunt, approaches him. Paul is attracted to her. It’s only too late that he realizes he’s under her control, completely at her mercy. Paul's suffering drives him to an act of despair.

PINGPONG was invited to the Semaine de la Critique in 2006 and won two awards, the SACD Screenplay Award and the Young Critic Award of the Student Jury of the German-French Youth Office.

ABOUT
Matthias Luthardt was born in 1972 in Leiden (Netherlands) and studied German and French literature and journalism in Germany and France. His documentary MENSCHEN BRAUCHEN HOBBIES was nominated for the Silver Wolf Award at the Amsterdam International Documentary Festival. He graduated from the Potsdam-Babelsberg Film School in 2005. PINGPONG is his first feature film.