Théâtre National de Bretagne
Direction Arthur Nauzyciel

SÉBASTIEN LIFSHITZ
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SÉBASTIEN LIFSHITZ

FILMMAKER

A former student at the École du Louvre, Sébastien Lifshitz bends the cinema to his hand. That of a demanding director who explores intimacies, ventures beyond appearances to understand the truth of beings. His work is both documentary and fiction, where a sense of poetry and sensitivity prevails. He tackles with infinite modesty questions of gender, homosexuality and tormented adolescence, as with Adolescentes, which won the Prix Louis-Delluc in 2020 and three Césars in 2021. A film that gave rise to an exchange with the director on the theme of youth during the 2020 Phantom Festival TNB.

 

In his films, the filmmaker focuses on anonymous existences, taking the time to meet people and even to probe the inner life of the strangers he films. In 2013, he won the César for best documentary for Les Invisibles, in which he interviewed men and women born between the wars who came to terms with their homosexuality in a France that was very moralistic at the time. He recently won unanimous acclaim with Petite fille, a moving film in which he follows the life of Sasha, a seven-year-old girl who was assigned a boy at birth, for a year. Presented at the Berlin Film Festival, the film has just gathered more than 3 million viewers on the ARTE channel during its broadcast. During the season 2021-2022 he will be one of the guests of the TNB Cinema.