Urs Odermatt (born 28 February 1955 in Stans, canton of Nidwalden) is a Swiss film director and author. After working for several years as a freelance journalist, film critic and photographer, Odermatt trained to be a film director and screenwriter under the two Polish pastmasters Krzysztof Kieślowski and Edward Żebrowski. He works in Germany and Switzerland as a director in film, television and theatre. In 1990 he founded the production company Nordwest Film AG with the cameraman . Odermatt lives and works in Windisch in Switzerland.