Emma and Anaïs are best friends and yet everything in their life seems to oppose them, their social background but also their personality. From the age of 13 to 18, 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 portray of France and its recent history.This film was selected at the Locarno Film Festival 2019 (Semaine de la critique)
STARRING
WRITER
Sébastien Lifshitz
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Antoine Parouty
Paul Guilhaume
SOUND
Yolande Decarsin
Clément Laforce
MUSIC
Tindersticks
FILM EDITING
Tina Baz
PRODUCTION
AGAT FILMS & CIE
CO-PRODUCTION
Arte France Cinéma
Les Productions Chaocorp
DISTRIBUTION
The Party Film Sales
Sébastien Lifshitz
After studying art history at the Ecole du Louvre, Sébastien Lifshitz choose cinema and directs in 2000 his first feature film, PRESQUE RIEN, which was critically acclaimed and distributed worldwide. This is followed by the documentary LA TRAVERSEE (2001) selected for the Directors’ Fortnight, WILD SIDE (2004) and BAMBI (2016), both of which won awards at the Berlin Film Festival. After LES INVISIBLES (2012) in official selection at the Cannes Film Festival and LES VIES DE THERESE (2017) at the Directors’ Fortnight, he returns in 2019 with his new documentary, ADOLESCENTES, which has won an award at the Locarno Film Festival.
FILMOGRAPHY
2000 : PRESQUE RIEN (fiction)
2001 : LA TRAVERSÉE (doc)
2004 : WILD SIDE (fiction)
2012 : LES INVISIBLES (doc)
2016 : BAMBI (doc)
2016 : LES VIES DE THÉRÈSE (doc)