Sébastien Lifshitz

Sébastien Lifshitz

1968-01-22 Paris, France 23 Credits

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, present...

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Madame Hofmann

Madame Hofmann

2024

Director, Screenplay

6.5
Directing Writing

"Welcome to my life", Sylvie Hofmann repeats this sentence almost all day long. Sylvie has been a nurse for 40 years at the North Hospital of Marseill...

Casa Susanna

Casa Susanna

2022

Director, Writer

7.9
Directing Writing

In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first cl...

Sensitive Boys

Sensitive Boys

2021

Director

Directing

A unique and committed look at the representation of male homosexuality on French television. Without commentary, exclusively made up of archives, thi...

Bambi: A French Woman

Bambi: A French Woman

2021

Director

6.0
Directing

From the day she was born in Algiers, Marie-Pierre has always wanted to wear dresses and has stubbornly refused her given name: Jean-Pierre. At the ag...

Little Girl

Little Girl

2020

Director, Writer

7.9
Directing Writing

7-year-old Sasha has always known that she is a girl. Sasha’s family has recently accepted her gender identity, embracing their daughter for who she t...

Adolescents

Adolescents

2020

Director, Writer

7.4
Directing Writing

Emma and Anaïs are best friends and yet everything in their life seems to set them apart, their social backgrounds but also their personalities. From ...

Avenue de Lamballe

Avenue de Lamballe

2019

as Self (voice)

Acting

Sébastien Lifshitz wandered around his grandfather's flat on Avenue de Lamballe in Paris. For months, until the place was sold, he filmed it, trying t...

Avenue de Lamballe

Avenue de Lamballe

2019

Director

Directing

Sébastien Lifshitz wandered around his grandfather's flat on Avenue de Lamballe in Paris. For months, until the place was sold, he filmed it, trying t...

The Lives of Thérèse

The Lives of Thérèse

2016

Director

7.2
Directing

Thérèse Clerc is one of the great figures of militantism. From the struggle to legalize abortion to the fight for equal rights of men and women and th...

Bambi

Bambi

2013

Writer, Producer, Director

6.0
Writing Producing Directing

Bambi was born Jean-Pierre Pruvot in a tiny Algerian village in 1935. Even as a child, she refused to meet the expectations of her extended family, ch...

Les Invisibles

Les Invisibles

2012

Director

7.0
Directing

Several elderly homosexual men and women speak frankly about their pioneering lives, their fearless decision to live openly in France at a time when s...

Going South

Going South

2009

Director, Writer

5.8
Directing Writing

In the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu and his sister Léa and takes them along in his appare...

Jour et nuit

Jour et nuit

2008

Director

6.0
Directing

A naked man is peacefully sleeping on his bed. The sun touches his skin. When he's awake, a melancholic boy appears to us.

Wild Side

Wild Side

2004

Director, Writer

5.9
Directing Writing

A transgender woman returns – with her two male lovers – to her family home in the countryside to look after her dying mother.

The Crossing

2001

Director

5.0
Directing

French national Stéphane Bouquet, the illegitimate son of a U.S. soldier, goes looking for the father he never met in the United States' heartland.

Come Undone

Come Undone

2000

Director, Writer

6.5
Directing Writing

Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy 18-year-ol...

Cold Lands

Cold Lands

1999

as Ice rink boy

5.4
Acting

A young Frenchman of Arab descent, Djamel, becomes convinced that his long-lost father is a rich factory owner in Grenoble. When the man coldly reject...

Cold Lands

Cold Lands

1999

Director, Screenplay

5.4
Directing Writing

A young Frenchman of Arab descent, Djamel, becomes convinced that his long-lost father is a rich factory owner in Grenoble. When the man coldly reject...

Open Bodies

Open Bodies

1998

as Guy in Porn Cinema

5.2
Acting

Born to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Rémi works part-time in an Arab grocery store while studyi...

Open Bodies

Open Bodies

1998

Director, Screenplay

5.2
Directing Writing

Born to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Rémi works part-time in an Arab grocery store while studyi...

Claire Denis, The Vagabond

Claire Denis, The Vagabond

1996

Director

Directing

In an arrestingly filmed interview (with the questions omitted), Denis offers a spirited and insightful discussion of her films and career. She talks ...

Il faut que je l'aime

Il faut que je l'aime

1994

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing

A young woman named Juliette reminisces a series of recent confrontations. We hear, off-screen, the voices of her loved ones, her mother, her former l...

Je m’appelle Sophie Calle et je suis encore vivante

N/A

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing