Miryam Charles is a Canadian director, producer, and cinematographer of Haitian origin. Her short films have been showcased in various festivals around the world. In 2022, her first feature film, Cette maison, premiered at the Berlinale; also screened at the AFI, IndieLisboa, Viennale, Art of the Real, and Canada’s Top 10 2022 at TIFF; and was named one of the best films of the year by Sight and Sound. That same year, she premiered the short film Au crépuscule at the Locarno Film Festival. She is currently working on her next feature, Le m arabout, as well as a group exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo. As an introduction to her list, she wrote: “I find it incredibly difficult to write about cinema, and even harder to write about favorite films. How do I find the words? Do these words even exist? Cinema is a strange, brilliant, fascinating object, both near and far. A poetic and political object. I let the film unfold within me, and then I examine what remains. I’d like to have written poems for each of these films. I haven’t found the words yet. Maybe in a few years I will find better ones. Or maybe never.”
Biography via Criterion.
