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Sébastien Lifshitz (b. 1968)

Birthplace:
Paris, France

Born:
January 22, 1968

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Film Production

Director:
1994  Il faut que je l'aime
1996  Claire Denis, The Vagabond
1998  Open Bodies
1999  Cold Lands
2000  Come Undone
2001  The Crossing
2004  Wild Side
2008  Jour et nuit
2009  Going South
2012  Les Invisibles
2013  Bambi
2016  The Lives of Thérèse
2019  Avenue de Lamballe
2020  Adolescents
2020  Little Girl
2021  Bambi: A French Woman
2021  Sensitive Boys
2022  Casa Susanna
2024  Madame Hofmann

Producer:
1994  Il faut que je l'aime
1996  Claire Denis, The Vagabond
1998  Open Bodies
1999  Cold Lands
2000  Come Undone
2001  The Crossing
2004  Wild Side
2008  Jour et nuit
2009  Going South
2012  Les Invisibles
2013  Bambi
2016  The Lives of Thérèse
2019  Avenue de Lamballe
2020  Adolescents
2020  Little Girl
2021  Bambi: A French Woman
2021  Sensitive Boys
2022  Casa Susanna
2024  Madame Hofmann

Screenplay:
1994  Il faut que je l'aime
1996  Claire Denis, The Vagabond
1998  Open Bodies
1999  Cold Lands
2000  Come Undone
2001  The Crossing
2004  Wild Side
2008  Jour et nuit
2009  Going South
2012  Les Invisibles
2013  Bambi
2016  The Lives of Thérèse
2019  Avenue de Lamballe
2020  Adolescents
2020  Little Girl
2021  Bambi: A French Woman
2021  Sensitive Boys
2022  Casa Susanna
2024  Madame Hofmann

Writer:
1994  Il faut que je l'aime
1996  Claire Denis, The Vagabond
1998  Open Bodies
1999  Cold Lands
2000  Come Undone
2001  The Crossing
2004  Wild Side
2008  Jour et nuit
2009  Going South
2012  Les Invisibles
2013  Bambi
2016  The Lives of Thérèse
2019  Avenue de Lamballe
2020  Adolescents
2020  Little Girl
2021  Bambi: A French Woman
2021  Sensitive Boys
2022  Casa Susanna
2024  Madame Hofmann

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TV Performances

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TV Production

Director:
1988  American Experience

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