Sébastien Lifshitz

Known for DirectingBorn 1968-01-22 (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. 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Il faut que je l'aime

Casa Susanna

Little Girl

A Very Good Boy

Adolescents

The Lives of Thérèse

Les Invisibles

Madame Hofmann

Come Undone

American Experience

The Crossing

Bambi

Day and Night

Wild Side

Going South

Cold Lands

Open Bodies

Conversation avec Sébastien Lifshitz

Sensitive Boys

Avenue de Lamballe

Le Cercle

Claire Denis, The Vagabond

Je m’appelle Sophie Calle et je suis encore vivante