Sébastien Lifshitz

Il faut que je l'aime

Sébastien Lifshitz

Valérie Mréjen, Florence Giorgetti

A young woman named Juliette is faced with a series of confrontations that she hears as those close to her discuss matters directly affecting Juliette offscreen.

Les Invisibles

Sébastien Lifshitz

Thérèse Clerc

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.

Petite fille

Sébastien Lifshitz

The touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is still invested in a biological boy-girl system of thought.

Les vies de Thérèse

Sébastien Lifshitz

Thérèse Clerc

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 tender and lucid look at the battles and the love that went with them.

La traversée

Sébastien Lifshitz

Stéphane Bouquet

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.

Bambi

Sébastien Lifshitz

Bambi

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 needed to emigrate to the French capital, assume the stage name of ‘Bambi’ and lead the life she longed for on the music-hall stages.

Adolescentes

Sébastien Lifshitz

Emma Jaubert, Anaïs Chambeaudie

Emma and Anaïs are best friends and yet everything in their life seems to set them apart, their social backgrounds but also their personalities. From the age of thirteen to eighteen, Adolescentes follows the two teenagers during these years where radical transformations and first times punctuate daily life. Through their personal stories, the film offers a rare portrait of France and its recent history.

Les corps ouverts

Sébastien Lifshitz

Yasmine Belmadi, Pierre-Loup Rajot

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 bed, and Rémi soon has other sexual experiences – with a guy in a men's room and with a young woman who grabs him while she's dancing in the street.

Come Undone

Sébastien Lifshitz

Jérémie Elkaïm, Stéphane Rideau

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.

Les terres froides

Sébastien Lifshitz

Yasmine Belmadi, Bernard Verley

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.

Wild Side

Sébastien Lifshitz

Stéphanie Michelini, Yasmine Belmadi

A transgender woman returns – with her two male lovers – to her family home in the countryside to look after her dying mother.

Plein sud

Sébastien Lifshitz

Yannick Renier, Léa Seydoux

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 Jérémie with them. Throughout the trip, they learn to know, fight and love each other. In spite of a blooming relationship with Matthieu, Sam isolates himself because of his secret: he is headed for Spain to find his long-lost mother.

Garçons Sensibles

Sebastien lifshitz, Sébastien Lifshitz

A unique and committed look at the representation of male homosexuality on French television. Without commentary, exclusively made up of archives, this film tells about the existence of the margin in the norm. A poetic and political work that highlights the power of the media over our imaginations.

Claire Denis, la vagabonde

Sébastien Lifshitz

Claire Denis

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 the role of dialogue, which is subordinate to image in her films.