Sébastien Lifshitz
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 22, 1968, Paris, France
- Movies
- 23
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2024 | Conversation avec Sébastien Lifshitz | Self - filmmaker |
| 2019 | Avenue de Lamballe | Self (voice) |
| 1999 | Cold Lands | Ice rink boy |
| 1998 | Open Bodies | Guy in Porn Cinema |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2026 | A Very Good Boy | Director |
| 2024 | Madame Hofmann | Director, Screenplay |
| 2022 | Casa Susanna | Director, Writer |
| 2021 | Sensitive Boys | Director |
| 2020 | Little Girl | Director, Writer |
| 2020 | Adolescents | Director, Writer |
| 2019 | Avenue de Lamballe | Director |
| 2016 | The Lives of Thérèse | Director |
| 2013 | Bambi | Producer, Director, Writer |
| 2012 | Les Invisibles | Director |
| 2009 | Going South | Director, Writer |
| 2008 | Day and Night | Director, Writer |
| 2004 | Wild Side | Director, Writer |
| 2001 | The Crossing | Director |
| 2000 | Come Undone | Director, Writer |
| 1999 | Cold Lands | Director, Screenplay |
| 1998 | Open Bodies | Director, Screenplay |
| 1996 | Claire Denis, The Vagabond | Director |
| 1994 | Il faut que je l'aime | Director, Screenplay |
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