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.
Once Upon a Time a Black
(Director of Photography)
Lost Paradises
(Director)
Towards the Colonies
(Director)
Song for the New World
(Director)
At Dusk
(Director)
Promenades nocturnes
(Producer)
Crossed Paths
(Director)
This House
(Director)
This House
(Director of Photography)
This House
(Screenplay)
Full Love
(Producer)
La boutique de forge
(Director of Photography)
Full Love
(Director of Photography)
Bird's Nest
(Original Music Composer)
Bird's Nest
(Editor)
Bird's Nest
(Sound Designer)
A Dream Country
(Director)
At Dusk
(Screenplay)
Le plantain
(Producer)
Le Marabout
(Director)
Le livre des abeilles
(Director of Photography)
Le plantain
(Director of Photography)
Mémoire de pluie
(Director of Photography)
All the Days of May
(Director)
Towards the Colonies
(Director of Photography)
Towards the Colonies
(Editor)
Three Atlas
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A Fortress
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A Fortress
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A Fortress
(Original Music Composer)
A Fortress
(Sound Designer)
A Fortress
(Director of Photography)
A Fortress
(Screenplay)
Fly, Fly Sadness
(Director)
Second Generation
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Second Generation
(Screenplay)
The Red Album or a Poetic Intent
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The Red Album or a Poetic Intent
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The Red Album or a Poetic Intent
(Screenplay)
Mosaic
(Screenplay)
Mosaic
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Feu de Bengale
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Feu de Bengale
(Director of Photography)
News, news
(Director of Photography)
Treasure Island
(Director)
Treasure Island
(Writer)
Comme des mouches
(Director of Photography)
Song for the New World
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Song for the New World
(Producer)
Song for the New World
(Editor)
Song for the New World
(Director of Photography)
All the Days of May
(Writer)
All the Days of May
(Director of Photography)
All the Days of May
(Editor)
All the Days of May
(Producer)
Fly, Fly Sadness
(Editor)
Fly, Fly Sadness
(Cinematography)
Fly, Fly Sadness
(Music)
Fly, Fly Sadness
(Writer)
Fly, Fly Sadness
(Sound)
Towards the Colonies
(Writer)
Towards the Colonies
(Music)
Three Atlas
(Writer)
Three Atlas
(Producer)
Three Atlas
(Cinematography)
Three Atlas
(Sound)
Three Atlas
(Editor)
Three Atlas
(Music)
Second Generation
(Producer)
Second Generation
(Cinematography)
Second Generation
(Sound)
Second Generation
(Editor)
Second Generation
(Music)