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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 Sid... more

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.

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Come Undone
(2000)
Drama, Romance
Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy 18-year-old Mathieu is on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning himself at the beach, until he spies the handsome Cédric and falls in love.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Sébastien Lifshitz
Cast:
Jérémie Elkaïm, Stéphane Rideau, Dominique Reymond, Marie Matheron, Laetitia Legrix
6.7
77%
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Wild Side
(2004)
Drama
A transgender woman returns – with her two male lovers – to her family home in the countryside to look after her dying mother.
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Sébastien Lifshitz
Cast:
Stéphanie Michelini, Yasmine Belmadi, Edouard Nikitine, Josiane Stoléru, Corentin Carinos
6.5
63%
52
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Les Invisibles
(2012)
Documentary, Romance
Several elderly homosexual men and women speak frankly about their pioneering lives, their fearless decision to live openly in France at a time when society rejected them.
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Sébastien Lifshitz
Cast:
Inconnus
7.5
100%
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Going South
(2009)
Drama
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 his apparently aimless journey. Matthieu has a crush on Sam and tries to seduce him. Léa is a beautiful, young, provocative girl who likes men so much that she got pregnant. She soon brings along J...
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Sébastien Lifshitz
Cast:
Yannick Rénier, Léa Seydoux, Nicole Garcia, Pierre Perrier, Micheline Presle
6.0
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Open Bodies
(1998)
Drama
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 while studying management and commerce. He responds to a school ad seeking subjects for a film, and Marc, who placed the ad, auditions Rémi by filming an interview with him. Rémi and Marc wind up in ...
Runtime:
47 min
Director:
Sébastien Lifshitz
Cast:
Yasmine Belmadi, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Margot Abascal, Mohamed Damraoui, Malik Zidi
7.0
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Bambi
(2013)
Documentary
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, choosing instead to find a way to become the woman she always knew herself to be. A Cabaret Carrousel de Paris performance in Algiers in the 1950s proved to be all the encouragement she nee...
Runtime:
60 min
Director:
Sébastien Lifshitz
Cast:
Bambi
7.1
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Cold Lands
(1999)
Drama
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 rejects him, Djamel plots a revenge that will implicate the man's closeted gay son.
Runtime:
62 min
Director:
Sébastien Lifshitz
Cast:
Yasmine Belmadi, Bernard Verley, Valérie Donzelli, Sébastien Charles
6.8
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The Crossing
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The Crossing
(2001)
Documentary
French national Stéphane Bouquet, the illegitimate son of a U.S. soldier, goes looking for the father he never met in the United States' heartland.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Sébastien Lifshitz
Cast:
Stéphane Bouquet
7.1
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The Lives of Thérèse
(2016)
Documentary
Thérèse Clerc is one of the great figures of militantism. From the struggle to legalize abortion to the fight for equal rights of men and women and the battle for gay rights, she’s been on the front lines of all of them. She has just learned that she has an incurable disease and has decided to take a last look back over her life, a ten...
Runtime:
55 min
Director:
Sébastien Lifshitz
Cast:
Thérèse Clerc
6.9
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Claire Denis, The Vagabond
(1996)
In an arrestingly filmed interview (with the questions omitted), Denis offers a spirited and insightful discussion of her films and career. She talks about her films, her career, the directors she admires - such as Renoir and Ozu - the writing of Frantz Fanon, and her convictions in regard to light, sound, montage, tracking shots, and ...
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50 min
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