Sébastien Lifshitz

Birthday: 1968-01-22
Birthplace: Paris, France
Gender: Male

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.

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Credits

Year Title
2024-04-10 Madame Hofmann
2022-08-31 Casa Susanna
2021-11-24 Sensitive Boys
2021-11-01 Bambi: A French Woman
2020-09-25 Little Girl
2020-09-09 Adolescents
2019-11-07 Avenue de Lamballe
2016-05-16 The Lives of Thérèse
2013-02-11 Bambi
2012-11-28 Les Invisibles
2009-12-30 Going South
2008-01-01 Jour et nuit
2004-02-08 Wild Side
2001-06-13 The Crossing
2000-06-07 Come Undone
1999-12-01 Cold Lands
1998-06-23 Open Bodies
1996-01-01 Claire Denis, The Vagabond
1994-01-30 Il faut que je l'aime