Sébastien Lifshitz

Directing·Jan 22, 1968·Paris, France

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Sébastien Lifshitz (born 1968) is a French screenwriter and director. He teaches at La Fémis, a school that focuses on the subject of image and sound. He studied at the École du Louvre and has a bachelor's degree from the University of Paris in history of art. He is Jewish and gay. Lifshitz's work involves LGBTQ+ themes. His 2004 film, Wild Side, involves several narratives, some told forward and some backward, about a transgender prostitute. He is a two-time winner of the Teddy Award, presented by an independent committee at the Berlin International Film Festival to the year's best films with LGBT themes, winning Best Feature Film in 2004 for Wild Side and Best Documentary Film in 2013 for Bambi, a documentary profile of transgender French entertainer Marie-Pierre Pruvot. In 2014, Rizzoli International published Lifshitz's The Invisibles: Vintage Portraits of Love and Pride, a collection of gay-themed photos from the early 20th century. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sébastien Lifshitz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Film	Credit
A Very Good Boy2026 · Director	Director
Conversation avec Sébastien Lifshitz2024 · Self - filmmaker	Self - filmmaker
Madame Hofmann2024 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Casa Susanna2022 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Sensitive Boys2021 · Director	Director
Little Girl2020 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Adolescents2020 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Avenue de Lamballe2019 · Self (voice), Director	Self (voice), Director
The Lives of Thérèse2016 · Director	Director
Bambi2013 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Les Invisibles2012 · Director	Director
Going South2009 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Day and Night2008 · Director	Director
Wild Side2004 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Crossing2001 · Director	Director
Come Undone2000 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Cold Lands1999 · Ice rink boy, Director, Screenplay	Ice rink boy, Director, Screenplay
Open Bodies1998 · Guy in Porn Cinema, Director, Screenplay	Guy in Porn Cinema, Director, Screenplay
Claire Denis, The Vagabond1996 · Director	Director
Il faut que je l'aime1994 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
JJe m’appelle Sophie Calle et je suis encore vivanteDirector, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay