Sébastien Lifshitz (born 1968)[1] 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.
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.[2]
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.[3] [4]
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=65 | Director | width=65 | Screenwriter | width=65 | Actor | |
| 1994 | French: Il faut que je l'aime | Short film | ||||
| 1996 | French: [[Claire Denis]], la vagabonde | Documentary film | ||||
| 1998 | Open Bodies (French: Les Corps ouverts) | Also as actor 1998 Cannes Film Festival - Kodak Short Film Award Prix Jean Vigo for Short Film | ||||
| 1999 | Cold Lands (French: Les Terres froides) | Telefilm (as part of the French: Gauche-Droite series for Arte) Also as actor (as Garçon Patinoire) | ||||
| 2000 | French: [[Presque rien]] | |||||
| 2001 | The Crossing (French: La Traversée) | Documentary film | ||||
| 2004 | Wild Side[5] | Berlinale 2004 - Teddy Award for Best Feature Film | ||||
| 2009 | Going South (French: Plein sud) | |||||
| 2012 | The Invisibles (French: Les Invisibles)[6] | Documentary film César Award for Best Documentary Film | ||||
| 2013 | Bambi | Documentary film Berlinale 2013 -Teddy Award for Best Documentary Nominated—César Award for Best Short Film | ||||
| 2016 | The Lives of Thérèse (French: Les Vies de Thérèse) | Documentary film Cannes Film Festival - Queer Palm | ||||
| 2019 | Adolescents (French: Adolescentes)[7] [8] | Documentary film Prix Louis-Delluc (for best French film of 2020) | ||||
| 2019 | French: Avenue de Lamballe | Short film | ||||
| 2020 | French: Garçons sensibles | French: Chéries-Chéris 2021|italic=no | ||||
| 2020 | Little Girl (French: Petite fille)[9] [10] | Documentary film Berlinale 2020 - PanoramaGrand Prix at 2020 edition of Film Fest Gent | ||||
| 2022 | Casa Susanna[11] [12] | |||||