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.
Career 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.
Filmography Year Title Credited as NotesDirectorScreenwriterActor 1994 Short film 1996 Documentary film 1998 Open Bodies () Also as actor1998 Cannes Film Festival - Kodak Short Film AwardPrix Jean Vigo for Short Film1999 Cold Lands () Telefilm (as part of the series for Arte)Also as actor (as Garçon Patinoire) 2000 2001 The Crossing () Documentary film 2004 Wild Side Berlinale 2004 - Teddy Award for Best Feature Film 2009 Going South () 2012 The Invisibles () Documentary filmCésar Award for Best Documentary Film 2013 Bambi Documentary filmBerlinale 2013 -Teddy Award for Best DocumentaryNominated—César Award for Best Short Film 2016 The Lives of Thérèse () Documentary filmCannes Film Festival - Queer Palm 2019 Adolescents () Documentary filmPrix Louis-Delluc (for best French film of 2020) 2019 Short film 2020 2020 Little Girl () Documentary filmBerlinale 2020 - Panorama Grand Prix at 2020 edition of Film Fest Gent 2022 Casa Susanna 2026Un jeune homme de bonne famille Documentary film
Bibliography Rees-Robertsn, N. French Queer Cinema (2008). Reeser, T. "Representing gay male domesticity in French film of the late 1990s," In Queer Cinema in Europe (2008). Reeser, T. "Transsexuality and the Disruption of Time in Sebastien Lifshitz's Wild Side," in Studies in French Cinema (2007).
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