Directing
Miryam Charles
FR, HT, EN, DE cinema · 28 credits
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
Crossed Paths
Director
Treasure Island
Director, Writer
All the Days of May
Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer
This House
as Voix hors champ (voice), Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
Once Upon a Time a Black
Director of Photography
Lost Paradises
Director
At Dusk
Director, Screenplay
Bird's Nest
Editor, Sound Designer, Original Music Composer
Song for the New World
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
Miryam
as Self
Second Generation
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Cinematography, Sound, Editor, Music
The Red Album or a Poetic Intent
Director, Screenplay, Editor
Three Atlas
Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematography, Sound, Editor, Music
A Fortress
Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Editor, Original Music Composer, Sound Designer
Mosaic
Director, Screenplay
Towards the Colonies
Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer, Music
Fly, Fly Sadness
Actor, Director, Editor, Cinematography, Music, Writer, Sound
Feu de Bengale
Director of Photography, Producer
News, news
Director of Photography
Full Love
Director of Photography, Producer
Le plantain
Producer, 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