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.
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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.
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Directed 8
Acted in 3
Wrote 8
Produced 4
Other credits 11
LearningAll the Days of May2023 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer
LearningThis House2022 · Actor, Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
LearningSong for the New World2021 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
LearningThree Atlas2018 · Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
LearningA Fortress2018 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Editor, Original Music Composer
LearningFly, Fly Sadness2015 · Actor, Director, Editor, Writer
LearningNews, news2014 · Director of Photography
LearningFull Love2013 · Director of Photography, Producer
LearningLe livre des abeilles2011 · Director of Photography
LearningComme des mouches2011 · Director of Photography
LearningMémoire de pluie2008 · Director of Photography