Miryam Charles
Miryam Charles is a director, producer and cinematographer of Haitian origin living in Montreal. She studied film production at Concordia University, graduating with a BFA in 2009. After her studies, she began her career as a director of photography, working on several occasions with filmmaker Olivier Godin. Afterwards, Miryam Charles went on to produce a number of film projects that gave her the confidence to direct her own work. Her first art-house short, Fly, Fly Sadness (2015), won the Best Art and Experimental Work Award at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma. This was followed by several acclaimed experimental shorts: Towards the Colonies (2016), A Fortress (2018), Drei Atlas (2018) and Second Generation (2019). Her first feature-length documentary flirting with experimentation and fiction, This House (2022), was screened at the Berlinale and the AFI Film Festival and was included in the TIFF Top 10 in 2022. She also launched the short film At Dusk at the Locarno Festival in the same year. As a producer, she is currently working on post-production for the series Après le déluge.
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This House
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Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the...
Towards the Colonies
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When a young girl is found dead off the Venezuelan coast, a medical examiner will try to determine the cause of death before the body is repatriated.
Drei Atlas
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A maid is suspected of murdering her former employer. Questioned by the police, she reveals the existence of a supernatural power.
Fly, Fly Sadness
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Following a nuclear explosion that transforms the voice of all the inhabitants of an island, a Finnish journalist goes there in order to find a hermit with mysterious powers.
Song for the New World
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Following the disappearance of a man in Scotland, his daughter recalls words chanted before nightfall.
This House
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Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the...
Towards the Colonies
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When a young girl is found dead off the Venezuelan coast, a medical examiner will try to determine the cause of death before the body is repatriated.
Drei Atlas
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A maid is suspected of murdering her former employer. Questioned by the police, she reveals the existence of a supernatural power.
Fly, Fly Sadness
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Following a nuclear explosion that transforms the voice of all the inhabitants of an island, a Finnish journalist goes there in order to find a hermit with mysterious powers.
Song for the New World
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Following the disappearance of a man in Scotland, his daughter recalls words chanted before nightfall.
