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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Madame Hofmann
2024
Director, Screenplay
"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
2022
Director, Writer
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
2021
Director
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
2021
Director
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
2020
Director, Writer
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
2020
Director, Writer
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
2019
as Self (voice)
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
2019
Director
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
2016
Director
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
2013
Writer, Producer, Director
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
2012
Director
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
2009
Director, Writer
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
2008
Director
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
2004
Director, Writer
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
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
2000
Director, Writer
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
1999
as Ice rink boy
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
1999
Director, Screenplay
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
1998
as Guy in Porn Cinema
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
1998
Director, Screenplay
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
1996
Director
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
1994
Director, Screenplay
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