Miryam Charles
Directing
Biography
Director, producer and cinematographer Miryam Charles lives in Montreal. She has produced several short and feature-length fiction films. Her first art-house short Vole vole Tristesse (2015) tackles the theme of social struggles. Winner of the Prix de la meilleure œuvre d’ art et expérimentation des Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, this film introduced Miryam Charles as a filmmaker. This was followed by several experimental shorts exploring the same themes: Towards The Colonies (2016), Une forteresse (2018), Drei Atlas (2018) and Second Generation (2019). Well-received by critics and widely shown on the international festival circuit, his long first feature-length documentary (on the borderline between experimentation and fiction) Cette maison (2022) deals with the security of the habitable place and the violence that can jeopardize it. Launched at the Berlin Film Festival, it won the Silvestre award for Best Feature Film at the IndieLisboa International Film Festival. His short fiction film Au crépuscule (2022), about eating disorders, is selected for official competition at the Locarno International Film Festival. The year 2022 marks the filmmaker’s real breakthrough.
Known For
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Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
That winter in Montréal, there is a girl. Three captains are wooing her. Cinema killed Jean-Baptiste Lamirande, the disastrous Liberator, who comes back to life just before Christmas. Héloïse, an amnesiac actress who lost her watch, has been reported missing.
News, news
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 violence that can jeopardize it.
This House
A dissection of hybrid identity in ten chapters through the life of a chimeric evolving creature 'Mosaic' and confessions by the most influentials scientists of our time.
Mosaic
After the death of their adoptive daughter a couple goes to Haiti. There, they meet with a DNA specialist who has the power of resurrection.
A Fortress
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Treasure Island
The documentary looks back on the evolution and key moments of black humour in Quebec.
Once Upon a Time a Black
The blacksmith returns to Montreal with fire and sword. He finds his old shop, now abandoned, and all the memories it holds.
La boutique de forge
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Full Love
After the death of her husband, Ethel retreats inward, doubting her loved ones, trying to make sense of the fabric of her reality. She has also begun wandering at night, each walk a more surreal and abstract adventure.
Promenades nocturnes
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Le livre des abeilles
Aïcha, a 7-year-old black girl receives a drawing mocking her hair. With the help of her big sister, they will spend the evening trying to make her beautiful like her classmates. How far is she willing to go to be seen and accepted?
Bird's Nest
Told through letters and enigmatic glimpses of images, Miryam Charles’ film depicts a woman’s travels to Haiti to meet the lover of her partner.
Second Generation
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Le Marabout
Antilles, 1994 On the eve of the arrival of foreign military forces on the island where they grew up, members of a peaceful group kidnap a soldier in order to find information that could forever alter the political destiny of their country.
Feu de Bengale
Jazz. Haiti. Plantains.
Le plantain
Following the shooting of a documentary on the death of her daughter, a mother reflects on her own life and especially on the passing of time.
All the Days of May
In search of an island that would resemble the island where she grew up, a filmmaker gets lost in her head, her memories and her dreams.
Lost Paradises
A woman drifts at sea, lost in her thoughts in search of a new place where she can live, free.
A Dream Country
Following a crushing defeat, a group of vigilantes get together to record an album of revolutionary songs.