Film archive, 2025

Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students

Name: Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students
Released: 2025
Duration: 90 min

Écrire la vie - Annie Ernaux racontée par des lycéennes et des lycéens

Director Claire Simon

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How can the words of a writer become a mirror for a new generation? Claire Simon enters classrooms across France and French Guiana, where high school students read and discuss the works of Nobel Prize-winning author Annie Ernaux. Through conversations on class, family, gender, memory and the body, Ernaux’s auto-socio-biography writing approach inspires young people to reflect on their own experiences and social realities. With an intimate observational approach, Simon transforms the classroom into a space where literature, identity and self-discovery meet.

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Director: Claire Simon
Country/Region: France
Year: 2025
Length: 90min
Original language: French

Director

Claire Simon

Acclaimed French filmmaker who studied anthropology in Paris and is self-taught in cinema. Active in documentary and fiction filmmaking for over forty years, she explores the boundaries between reality and fiction through intimate, socially engaged works.

From Women Make Waves International Film Festival 2026, No. 33

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Jules Jasko Nathalie Vidal Clément Claude

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Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School StudentsWomen Make Waves International Film Festival 2026, No. 33Collective Gestures

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Women Make Waves International Film Festival, 2026Collective Gestures, Official selection

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Claire Simon

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