Sébastien Lifshitz

Sébastien Lifshitz

Sébastien Lifshitz (born January 21, 1968 ) is a French director and screenwriter .

Life

Sébastien Lifshitz studied art history at the École du Louvre and at the Sorbonne from 1987 to 1993 , worked as assistants to Bernard Blistènes and Suzanne Lafonts at the Center Georges Pompidou and then embarked on a career as a director. Lifshitz also played in small supporting roles in Open Hearts and Les terres froides .

He won a César in 2013 for his documentary Les Invisibles (2012), which portrays the lives of older homosexual men and women .

Filmography

• 1996: Il faut que je l'aime (short film)
• 1998: Open Hearts (Les corps ouverts) (short film)
• 1999: Les terres froides (TV movie)
• 2000: Summer and Winter (Presques)
• 2001: La traversée (documentary)
• 2004: Wild Side
• 2009: Plein Sud - On the way south (Plein sud)
• 2012: Les invisibles (documentary)
• 2013: Bambi (documentary)
• 2016: Les vies de Thérèse (documentary)
• 2020: Petite fille (Little Girl) (documentary)

Awards

• 2020 Third place for Petite Fille at the Panorama Audience Award of the Berlinale 2020 in the Panorama Documents category

Web links

Commons : Sébastien Lifshitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sébastien Lifshitz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography at unifrance.org