Miryam Charles

Miryam Charles is a Haitian-Canadian filmmaker from Montreal, Quebec, whose debut feature film This House (Cette maison) was released in 2022.

The film was longlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's 2022 Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award, and was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 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.

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.

Miryam 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.

Favorite films
In 2022, Charles participated in the Sight & Sound film polls of that year. It is held every ten years to select the greatest films of all time, by asking contemporary directors to select ten films of their choice.

Charles selections were:


 * Goodbye, Dragon Inn  (2003)
 * Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
 * Losing Ground (1998)
 * Recordações da Casa Amarela (1989)
 * They all Laughed (1981)
 * Finye (1982)
 * Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
 * De lo mio (2019)
 * Written on the Wind (1956)
 * Bamako (2006)

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