Sébastien Lifshitz

Sébastien Lifshitz

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.

  • Title: Sébastien Lifshitz
  • Popularity: 1.033
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1968-01-22
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
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Sébastien Lifshitz Movies

  • 2019
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    Avenue de Lamballe

    Avenue de Lamballe

    1 2019 HD

    Sébastien Lifshitz wandered around his grandfather's flat on Avenue de Lamballe in Paris. For months, until the place was sold, he filmed it,...

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  • 1998
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    Open Bodies

    Open Bodies

    5.2 1998 HD

    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...

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  • 1999
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    Cold Lands

    Cold Lands

    5.4 1999 HD

    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...

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  • 2004
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    Wild Side

    Wild Side

    6.1 2004 HD

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

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  • 2000
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    Come Undone

    Come Undone

    6.5 2000 HD

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

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  • 2009
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    Going South

    Going South

    5.8 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2012
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    Les Invisibles

    Les Invisibles

    7 2012 HD

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

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  • 1998
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    Open Bodies

    Open Bodies

    5.2 1998 HD

    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...

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  • 2013
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    Bambi

    Bambi

    5.967 2013 HD

    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,...

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  • 2013
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    Bambi

    Bambi

    5.967 2013 HD

    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,...

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  • 2013
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    Bambi

    Bambi

    5.967 2013 HD

    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,...

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  • 1996
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    Claire Denis, The Vagabond

    Claire Denis, The Vagabond

    1 1996 HD

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

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  • 2004
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    Wild Side

    Wild Side

    6.1 2004 HD

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

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  • 2021
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    Sensitive Boys

    Sensitive Boys

    1 2021 HD

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

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  • 2022
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    Casa Susanna

    Casa Susanna

    7.9 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 2000
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    Come Undone

    Come Undone

    6.5 2000 HD

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

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  • 2001
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    The Crossing

    The Crossing

    5 2001 HD

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

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  • 1999
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    Cold Lands

    Cold Lands

    5.4 1999 HD

    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...

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  • 2022
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    Casa Susanna

    Casa Susanna

    7.9 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    Bambi: A French Woman

    Bambi: A French Woman

    6 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2009
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    Going South

    Going South

    5.8 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2008
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    Jour et nuit

    Jour et nuit

    6 2008 HD

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

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  • 2016
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    The Lives of Thérèse

    The Lives of Thérèse

    7.2 2016 HD

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

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  • 2019
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    Avenue de Lamballe

    Avenue de Lamballe

    1 2019 HD

    Sébastien Lifshitz wandered around his grandfather's flat on Avenue de Lamballe in Paris. For months, until the place was sold, he filmed it,...

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  • 2024
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    Madame Hofmann

    Madame Hofmann

    6.2 2024 HD

    "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...

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  • 2020
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    Adolescents

    Adolescents

    7.3 2020 HD

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

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  • 2020
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    Little Girl

    Little Girl

    7.862 2020 HD

    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...

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  • 2020
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    Little Girl

    Little Girl

    7.862 2020 HD

    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...

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  • 1994
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    Il faut que je l'aime

    Il faut que je l'aime

    1 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 2020
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    Adolescents

    Adolescents

    7.3 2020 HD

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

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  • 1998
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    Open Bodies

    Open Bodies

    5.2 1998 HD

    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...

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  • 1999
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    Cold Lands

    Cold Lands

    5.4 1999 HD

    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...

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  • 1994
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    Il faut que je l'aime

    Il faut que je l'aime

    1 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    7.5 1970 HD

    TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

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