Miryam Charles
- Known for
- Directing
- Birthplace
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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.
Filmography
Crossed Paths TBA
Director
Treasure Island 2026
Director, Writer
- Le Marabout
Le Marabout 2023
Director
All the Days of May 2023
Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer
This House 2022
as Voix hors champ (voice), Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
Bird's Nest 2022
Editor, Sound Designer, Original Music Composer
Promenades nocturnes 2022
Producer
At Dusk 2022
Director, Screenplay
Lost Paradises 2022
Director
Once Upon a Time a Black 2022
Director of Photography
Song for the New World 2021
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
A Dream Country 2021
Director
Miryam 2020
as Self
The Red Album or a Poetic Intent 2019
Director, Screenplay, Editor
Second Generation 2019
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Cinematography, Sound, Editor, Music
Three Atlas 2018
Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematography, Sound, Editor, Music
A Fortress 2018
Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Editor, Original Music Composer, Sound Designer
Mosaic 2017
Director, Screenplay
Towards the Colonies 2016
Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer, Music
Fly, Fly Sadness 2015
Actor, Director, Editor, Cinematography, Music, Writer, Sound
News, news 2014
Director of Photography
Feu de Bengale 2014
Director of Photography, Producer
Le plantain 2013
Producer, Director of Photography
Full Love 2013
Director of Photography, Producer
La boutique de forge 2012
Director of Photography
Le livre des abeilles 2011
Director of Photography
Comme des mouches 2011
Director of Photography
Mémoire de pluie 2008
Director of Photography
Credits from TMDB.