Profile | プロフィール

Born / 生年月日
1968 | Paris, France

Age / 年齢
Approximately 56–57 years old (as of 2025)

Occupation / 職業
Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer

映画監督、脚本家、プロデューサー

Nationality / 国籍
French (フランス)

Biography | 経歴

Note: Sébastien Lifshitz is the most formally accomplished and the most humanistically serious filmmaker working at the intersection of documentary and fiction in contemporary French cinema—a director whose specific combination of the patient observational intelligence and the sustained empathetic attentiveness to the specific experience of lives rendered invisible by social and institutional refusal, the particular formal practice of the long-form documentary as the most honest instrument for the rendering of the specific quality of the individual life across extended time, and the fiction filmmaker’s understanding of how narrative and emotional transparency can serve the most serious documentary purposes, has produced a filmography of extraordinary moral seriousness and genuine formal originality that constitutes the most sustained and the most formally accomplished single documentary engagement with LGBTQ+ lives and experiences in the history of French cinema. Come Undone is the most formally accomplished of his fiction films—the most formally precise and the most emotionally transparent French LGBTQ+ fiction film of its decade, recognized across two decades as one of the founding documents of serious French queer cinema. Bambi is the most historically significant of his documentary films—the César Award for Best Documentary for the portrait of the 1950s transgender dancer whose decades of concealment constituted the specific form of social survival available to her in mid-twentieth-century France. Adolescentes is the formal summit of his documentary practice—the most formally accomplished French longitudinal documentary of its decade, the César Award for Best Documentary, and the most complete expression of the specific possibilities of the observational documentary across an extended temporal arc. Petite Fille is the most urgent and the most socially significant—the César Award for Best Documentary and the recognition as the most formally accomplished documentary portrait of a transgender child in the history of world cinema, for a film whose sustained observational proximity to Sasha and her family constitutes simultaneously the most formally direct and the most humanistically serious argument for the full humanity of the transgender child’s experience available in the history of the documentary form. And the aggregate of his filmography—the three César Awards, the sustained engagement with the specific forms of social invisibility that the most vulnerable members of the LGBTQ+ community have most consistently experienced, and the formal commitment to the long-form observational practice as the most honest instrument of the humanistic documentary—constitutes the most formally serious and the most humanistically accomplished single record of creative engagement with LGBTQ+ lives in the history of contemporary French cinema.

注: セバスチャン・リフシッツは、現代フランス映画においてドキュメンタリーとフィクションの交差点で活動する最も形式的に達成され最も人道主義的に真剣な映画作家です—社会的・制度的拒絶によって不可視にされた生活の特定の経験への忍耐強い観察的知性と持続的な共感的注意力・個人の生活の特定の質を延長された時間の中で描くための最も正直な手段としての長編ドキュメンタリーという特定の形式的実践・物語と感情的透明性がどのように最も真剣なドキュメンタリー目的を果たすかという小説映画作家の理解という特定の組み合わせが、フランス映画史においてLGBT+の生活と経験への最も持続的で最も形式的に達成された単一のドキュメンタリー的関与を構成するフィルモグラフィーを生み出してきた映画作家。セザール賞最優秀ドキュメンタリー映画賞3度受賞（『バンビ』2014年・『アドレッセンツ』2020年・『プティット・フィーユ』2021年）—8年間にわたる記録はセザール賞の歴史において前例のない持続的なドキュメンタリー認識。『プレスク・リアン』（2000年）はフランスLGBT+フィクション映画の最も形式的に達成されたデビュー作の一つ。『アドレッセンツ』は最も形式的に野心的—5年間の縦断的ドキュメンタリー。『リトル・ガール』は最も緊急で最も社会的に重要—世界映画史上最も形式的に達成されたトランスジェンダーの子供のドキュメンタリー・ポートレートとして認められた作品。

Filmography | 監督作品

Feature Films & Documentaries as Director (監督長編作品＆ドキュメンタリー)

Short Films — Selected (短編)

Awards & Recognition | 受賞歴

César Awards (セザール賞)

Winner: 3 🏆

• Best Documentary Film – Bambi (2014) 🏆
• Best Documentary Film – Adolescentes (2020) 🏆
• Best Documentary Film – Petite Fille (2021) 🏆

Nominated:

• Best Documentary Film – Les Vies de Thérèse (2017) 🌟

Three César Awards for Best Documentary across eight years constitutes the most sustained record of documentary recognition in the history of the César Awards for any single director.

International LGBTQ+ Film Festivals

Winner: Multiple 🏆

• Come Undone — Multiple awards at Frameline (San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival), Outfest (Los Angeles), and other major international LGBTQ+ film festivals; recognized as one of the most formally accomplished LGBTQ+ fiction films of its decade
• Wild Side — International festival recognition across European and American LGBTQ+ film festival circuits
• Multiple films recognized at the Chéries-Chéris festival (Paris International LGBT Film Festival) and comparable international festivals across his career

External Links | 外部リンク

• IMDb
• Wikipedia (English)
• Wikipedia (フランス語)