Miryam Charles is a Haitian-Canadian filmmaker from Montreal, Quebec,Radheyan Simonpillai, "Canada’s Rising Screen Stars: Miryam Charles". Now, April 6, 2022. whose debut feature film This House (Cette maison) was released in 2022.Justine Smith, "Director Miryam Charles examines grief through a dreamy lens in Cette Maison". Cult MTL, February 15, 2023.
The film was longlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's 2022 Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award,"JEAN-MARC VALLÉE DGC DISCOVERY AWARD LONG LIST DROPS AT VISIONARIES". Yahoo! Movies, September 11, 2022. and was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022.Pat Mullen, "Three Feature Docs Make Canada’s Top Ten". Point of View, December 8, 2022.
An alumna of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, Charles previously directed a number of short films, and has been a producer and cinematographer on several films by Olivier Godin.André Duchesne, "Olivier Godin: réaliser sans amertume". La Presse, June 23, 2014.
Career Her films have been exhibited in film festivals and museum institutions throughout the Americas and Europe. This House has its world premiere at the 2022 Berlinale Forum at Berlin International Film Festival, the AFI Film Festival, and the TIFF Top 10 of the year. Her short film At Dusk, was first released at the Locarno Film Festival, in Italy.
Charles received awards at IndieLisboa and the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. The artist has had museum presentations at Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and University of Iowa. Her film Song for the New World is in the permanent collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, and Drei Atlas is in the collection of Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada.
Her short film All the Days of May (Tous les jours de mai) screened in the Short Cuts program at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.Anthony D'Alessandro, "TIFF Shorts Lineup Includes ‘Dammi’ Starring Riz Ahmed; Works By Mackenzie Davis, Yann Demange & More". Deadline Hollywood, August 9, 2023.
In 2025, she was named the inaugural recipient of the Charles Officer Award at the opening of the Canada's Top Ten screening series.Jamie Casemore, "Miryam Charles receives inaugural Charles Officer award". Playback, February 6, 2025.
Filmography Fly, Fly Sadness (Vole, vole tristesse) - 2015 Toward the Colonies - 2016 Mosaic - 2017 A Fortress - 2018 Drei Atlas - 2018 Second Generation - 2019 Song for the New World (Chanson pour le Nouveau Monde) - 2021 This House (Cette maison) - 2022 At Dusk (Au crépuscule) - 2022 All the Days of May (Tous les jours de mai) - 2023 Treasure Island (L’île aux trésors ) - 2026
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