Sébastien Lifshitz
Directing
- Born
- January 22, 1968 (age 58) · Paris, France
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.
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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.
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Known for
Little Girl
September 25, 2020
Adolescents
September 9, 2020
Come Undone
June 7, 2000
Les Invisibles
November 28, 2012
Going South
December 30, 2009
Wild Side
February 8, 2004
Bambi
February 11, 2013
Madame Hofmann
April 10, 2024
Casa Susanna
August 31, 2022
Cold Lands
December 1, 1999
Open Bodies
June 23, 1998
The Lives of Thérèse
May 16, 2016
Behind the camera20
- 2026A Very Good Boy Director, Author
- 2024Madame Hofmann Director, Screenplay
- 2022Casa Susanna Director, Writer
- 2021Sensitive Boys Director
- 2020Little Girl Director, Writer
- 2020Adolescents Director, Writer
- 2019Avenue de Lamballe Director
- 2016The Lives of Thérèse Director
- 2013Bambi Producer, Director, Writer
- 2012Les Invisibles