Sébastien Lifshitz
Directing
Biography
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.
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Movies (21)
A Very Good Boy2026Directing
Conversation avec Sébastien Lifshitz2024Self - filmmaker
Madame Hofmann2024Directing
Casa Susanna2022Directing
Sensitive Boys2021Directing
Little Girl2020Directing
Adolescents2020Directing
Avenue de Lamballe2019Self (voice)
The Lives of Thérèse2016Directing
Bambi2013Directing
Les Invisibles2012Directing
Going South2009Directing
Day and Night2008Directing
Wild Side2004Directing
The Crossing2001Directing
Come Undone2000Directing
Cold Lands1999Ice rink boy
Open Bodies1998Guy in Porn Cinema
Claire Denis, The Vagabond1996Directing
Il faut que je l'aime1994Directing- Je m’appelle Sophie Calle et je suis encore vivanteDirecting
Shows (2)
Le Cercle2005Self
American Experience1988Directing