
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 collec…
movieA Very Good Boy
2026 · Director, Author
movieConversation avec Sébastien Lifshitz
2024 · Self - filmmaker
movieMadame Hofmann
2024 · Director, Screenplay
movieCasa Susanna
2022 · Director, Writer
movieSensitive Boys
2021 · Director
movieLittle Girl
2020 · Director, Writer
movieAdolescents
2020 · Director, Writer
movieAvenue de Lamballe
2019 · Self (voice), Director
movieThe Lives of Thérèse
2016 · Director
movieBambi
2013 · Writer, Producer, Director
movieLes Invisibles
2012 · Director
movieGoing South
2009 · Director, Writer
movieDay and Night
2008 · Director
tvLe Cercle
2005 · Self
movieWild Side
2004 · Director, Writer
movieThe Crossing
2001 · Director
movieCome Undone
2000 · Director, Writer
movieCold Lands
1999 · Ice rink boy, Director, Screenplay
movieOpen Bodies
1998 · Guy in Porn Cinema, Director, Screenplay
movieClaire Denis, The Vagabond
1996 · Director
movieIl faut que je l'aime
1994 · Director, Screenplay
tvAmerican Experience
1988 · Director
Je m’appelle Sophie Calle et je suis encore vivante
— · Director, Screenplay