Miryam Charles
Miryam Charles is a filmmaker and visual artist of Haitian descent based in Laval. Her practice moves between cinema and visual arts, often engaging with questions of memory, belonging, mourning, and the afterlives of historical violence. Her films have been presented at festivals throughout Québec and internationally. Her debut feature, This House, premiered at the Berlinale and went on to screen at the AFI Film Festival; it was also selected for TIFF’s Top 10 and named one of Sight and Sound’s Best Films of 2022. In 2022, she also premiered her short film At Dusk at Locarno.
Her work has been exhibited at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, MoMA, Basis Frankfurt, the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, the Everson Museum of Art, and the Palais de Tokyo. In 2025, she received the Charles Officer Legacy Award from TIFF and CBC. In 2026, her short film, L’Île aux trésors received the Best Narrative Short award at BlackStar Film Festival. She is currently working on the feature films Vers le soleil ou plus près encore and Les filles de Borel.
Fotos
Filme (28)
Treasure Island
2026 · Director, Writer
Le Marabout
2023 · Director
All the Days of May
2023 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer
This House
2022 · Voix hors champ (voice), Director, Director of Photography, Screenplay
Promenades nocturnes
2022 · Producer
Bird's Nest
2022 · Original Music Composer, Editor, Sound Designer
At Dusk
2022 · Director, Screenplay
Lost Paradises
2022 · Director
Once Upon a Time a Black
2022 · Director of Photography
Song for the New World
2021 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
A Dream Country
2021 · Director
Miryam
2020 · Self
The Red Album or a Poetic Intent
2019 · Director, Editor, Screenplay
Second Generation
2019 · Director, Screenplay, Producer, Cinematography, Sound, Editor, Music
Three Atlas
2018 · Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematography, Sound, Editor, Music
A Fortress
2018 · Director, Editor, Original Music Composer, Sound Designer, Director of Photography, Screenplay
Mosaic
2017 · Screenplay, Director
Towards the Colonies
2016 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer, Music
Fly, Fly Sadness
2015 · Director, Editor, Cinematography, Music, Writer, Sound
News, news
2014 · Director of Photography
Feu de Bengale
2014 · Producer, Director of Photography
Le plantain
2013 · Producer, Director of Photography
Full Love
2013 · Producer, Director of Photography
La boutique de forge
2012 · Director of Photography
Le livre des abeilles
2011 · Director of Photography
Comme des mouches
2011 · Director of Photography
Mémoire de pluie
2008 · Director of Photography
Crossed Paths
· Director
