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Directing
Credits
29 titles
Miryam Charles
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Treasure Island
Director
Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
Self
Le Marabout
Director
All the Days of May
Director
This House
Voix hors champ (voice)
Bird's Nest
Editor
Promenades nocturnes
Producer
At Dusk
Director
Lost Paradises
Director
Once Upon a Time a Black
Director of Photography
Song for the New World
Director
A Dream Country
Director
Miryam
Self
The Red Album or a Poetic Intent
Director
Second Generation
Director
Three Atlas
A Fortress
Director
Mosaic
Director
Towards the Colonies
Director
Fly, Fly Sadness
News, news
Director of Photography
Feu de Bengale
Director of Photography
Le plantain
Producer
Full Love
Director of Photography
La boutique de forge
Director of Photography
Le livre des abeilles
Director of Photography
Comme des mouches
Director of Photography
Mémoire de pluie
Director of Photography
Crossed Paths
Director