The Super 8 Years

This film will be screened on Sunday, 2 February 2025 at 7:00 pm.

A Documentary by Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot | 2022 | 64 min | France | In French with English subtitles

The French writer and Nobel prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following, opens a treasure trove with this journey into her family's memory. Compiled from textured home movie images from 1972 to 1981, this portrait of a time, place and moment of personal and political significance takes us from holidays and family rituals in suburban bourgeois France to trips abroad in Albania, Egypt, Spain and the USSR. Supplying her own introspective voiceover, Ernaux and her co-filmmaker, her son David, guide the viewer through fragments of a decade, diffuse and vivid in equal measure. The Super 8 Years is a visual extension of Ernaux’s ongoing literary project to make sense of the mysterious past and the unknowable future.

Attention!

Please note that our library has limited seats and we work on a first-come, first-served basis. Our doors open at 6:30 PM and the screening starts at 7:00 PM or earlier in case the space reaches its full capacity. Thank you for understanding and see you on Sunday!

!برجاء الانتباه

تفتح الأبواب الساعة ٦:٣٠ مساء ويبدأ العرض الساعة ٧:٠٠ مساء. في انتظاركم يوم الأحد القادم