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

    Claire Simon 2025 France color 91min DCP
    date time venue guests rating
    10/17 10:50 Spot Huasan A One PG12
    10/20 21:30 Spot Huasan A One PG12
    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.

    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.

    Claire Simon

    Producer Emmanuel Perreau

    Screenwriter, Cinematographer Claire Simon

    Editor Luc Forveille

    Sound Jules Jasko, Nathalie Vidal, Clément Claude

    Be For Films
    festival@beforfilms.com

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