Sébastien Lifshitz

• Sébastien Lifshitz, French director born in Paris in 1968.

  After studies at the École du Louvre, Sébastien Lifshitz worked in the contemporary art world before switching to film in the nineties. Oscillating between fiction and documentary, his work explores the representation of bodies and the quest for identity. In 2000, he directed his first feature, Come Undone, then in 2004, filmed a transgender woman in Wild Side, which won a Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival, an award that he would later win again for his documentary Bambi in 2013. His films highlight underrepresented queer characters, such as The Invisible Ones (César for Best Documentary in 2013) or Little Girl (2020). As a collector, he has contributed to several exhibitions, notably Mauvais genre on cross-dressing, held at the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles in 2016 and L’Inventaire infini at the Centre Pompidou in 2019. During the same period, he launched the five-year shoot of Adolescents, which won the Louis Delluc Prize and three Césars; and later presented the humanist portrait of a nurse with Madame Hofmann in 2024. His latest documentary, Un jeune homme de bonne famille, was recently aired on the Arte channel.

• Il faut que je l'aime (1994) - Claire Denis, la vagabonde (1996) - Open Bodies (1997) - Cold Lands (1999) - Presque rien (2000) - The Crossing (2001) - Wild Side (2004) - Les Témoins (2006) - Jour et Nuit (2008) - Going South (2009) - The Invisibles (2012) - Bambi (2013) - The Lives of Thérèse (2016) - Adolescents (2019) - Avenue de Lamballe (2019) - Little Girl (2020) - Bambi, une nouvelle femme (2021) - Garçons Sensibles (2021) - Casa Susanna (2022) - Madame Hofmann (2023) - Un jeune homme de bonne famille (2026)