Kino Lorber has landed North American rights to Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical film “The Super 8 Years” (“Les années Super-8”). A press release announced that the archival documentary composed of silent Super 8 footage of her family from 1972 to 1981 will be released at the Lincoln Center December 16, six days after Ernaux is awarded with the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Directed by Ernaux and her son, David Ernaux-Briot, “The Super 8 Years” features voiceover narration from the celebrated author and highlights “the inner lives of women alongside societal and cultural changes in France from the 1960s onwards,” per its synopsis. The film is described as a “natural extension of