Miryam Charles

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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.

Film	Credit
Treasure Island2026 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
LLe Marabout2023 · Director	Director
All the Days of May2023 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer	Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
This House2022 · Voix hors champ (voice), Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography	Voix hors champ (voice), Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
At Dusk2022 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Lost Paradises2022 · Director	Director
Song for the New World2021 · Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
A Dream Country2021 · Director	Director
The Red Album or a Poetic Intent2019 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Second Generation2019 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
Three Atlas2018 · Actor, Director, Writer, Producer	Actor, Director, Writer, Producer
A Fortress2018 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography	Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
Mosaic2017 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Towards the Colonies2016 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer	Director, Director of Photography, Writer
Fly, Fly Sadness2015 · Actor, Director, Writer	Actor, Director, Writer
Crossed PathsDirector	Director