This film is a part of "Personal Perspective".

At the age of 81, the French writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022, Annie Ernaux, has directed her first film with her son. ‘The Super 8 Years’ is a compilation composed entirely of Super 8mm films from the family archive, with Ernaux’s own voice as the engaging, personal narrator. In this way, the film is both formally and conceptually a logical continuation of her literary works and oeuvre. Annie Ernaux is all about words, and in her own words the film is ‘a testimony to the aspirations of a social class in the 1970s… a narrative that transcends the intimate, the social and the historical to reproduce the flavour and colour of those years’.

Annie Ernaux

Author of some twenty books, Annie Ernaux is considered one of France's most important writers. Her work, essentially autobiographical, has won numerous awards. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022.

David Ernaux-Briot

David Ernaux-Briot, son of Annie and Philippe Ernaux, was born in 1968. Active in science journalism, he contributes to television programs. Les Années Super 8 is his first feature-length documentary.