Sébastien Lifshitz is a French filmmaker born in Paris in 1968. After studying at the École du Louvre, Sébastien Lifshitz worked in the contemporary art world before turning to film in the 1990s. Moving between fiction and documentary, his work explores the representation of the body and the search for identity. In 2000, he directed his first feature film, *Presque Rien*, and in 2004, he cast a transgender woman in *Wild Side*, which won a Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival—an honor he would receive again for his documentary *Bambi* in 2013.

His films shine a light on queer people, a group that is underrepresented, as seen in *Les Invisibles* (César Award for Best Documentary in 2013) and *Petite fille* (2020).

As a collector, he has participated in several exhibitions, notably *Mauvais genre* on cross-dressing at the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles in 2016 and *L’Inventaire infini* at the Centre Pompidou in 2019. Around the same time, he began filming *Adolescentes*, a five-year project that would go on to win the Louis Delluc Prize and three César Awards; he then delivered a humanistic portrait of a nurse in *Madame Hofmann* in 2024. His latest documentary, *Un jeune homme de bonne famille*, has just aired on the Arte channel.