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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, belo…
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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.
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2026
Treasure Island
Movie Director
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2024
Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
TV show Self
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2023
Le Marabout
Movie Director
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2023
All the Days of May
Movie Director
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2022
This House
Movie Voix hors champ (voice)
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2022
Bird's Nest
Movie Editor
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2022
Promenades nocturnes
Movie Producer
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2022
At Dusk
Movie Director
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2022
Lost Paradises
Movie Director
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2022
Once Upon a Time a Black
Movie Director of Photography
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2021
Song for the New World
Movie Director
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2021
A Dream Country
Movie Director
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2020
Miryam
Movie Self
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2019
The Red Album or a Poetic Intent
Movie Director
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2019
Second Generation
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2018
Three Atlas
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2018
A Fortress
Movie Director
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2017
Mosaic
Movie Director
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2016
Towards the Colonies
Movie Director
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2015
Fly, Fly Sadness
Movie
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2014
News, news
Movie Director of Photography
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2014
Feu de Bengale
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2013
Le plantain
Movie Producer
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2013
Full Love
Movie Director of Photography
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2012
La boutique de forge
Movie Director of Photography
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2011
Le livre des abeilles
Movie Director of Photography
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2011
Comme des mouches
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2008
Mémoire de pluie
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Crossed Paths
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