Miryam Charles
Directing
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
This House
November 4, 2022
Song for the New World
October 1, 2021
La boutique de forge
October 11, 2012
Bird's Nest
October 7, 2022
All the Days of May
April 20, 2023
Once Upon a Time a Black
February 4, 2022
Lost Paradises
February 16, 2022
Towards the Colonies
October 21, 2016
At Dusk
August 3, 2022
Promenades nocturnes
October 7, 2022
Crossed Paths
Full Love
October 10, 2013
Behind the camera27
- 2026Treasure Island Director, Writer
- 2023Le Marabout Director
- 2023All the Days of May Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer
- 2022This House Director, Director of Photography, Screenplay
- 2022Promenades nocturnes Producer
- 2022Bird's Nest Original Music Composer, Editor, Sound Designer
- 2022At Dusk Director, Screenplay
- 2022Lost Paradises Director
- 2022Once Upon a Time a Black Director of Photography
- 2021