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 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.
Cold Lands
as Ice rink boyA young Frenchman of Arab descent, Djamel, becomes convinced that his long-lost father is a rich...
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Open Bodies
as SébastienBorn to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Rémi...
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Avenue de Lamballe
as Self (voice)Sébastien Lifshitz wandered around his grandfather's flat on Avenue de Lamballe in Paris. For...
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