This House

(Cette maison)
Miryam Charles
|
Canada
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2022
|
85
min.
|
French, Creole

Synopsis

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 explores the relationship between the security of the living space and the violence that can jeopardize it.Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her bedroom. While everything suggests suicide, the autopsy report reveals another evidence. Ten years later, the director and the teenager's cousin looks at the past causes as well as the future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the safety of the living space and the violence that can endanger it.

Festivals

  • Berlin International Film Festival - Forum, Germany, 2022.
  • Hot Docs, Canada, 2022.
  • Indie Lisboa, Portugal, 2022.
  • Frames of Representation - ICA, UK
  • Olhar de Cinema (Curitiba IFF), Brasil, 2022.
  • Third Horizon Film Festival, USA, 2022.
  • Taipei International Film Festival, Taiwan, 2022.
  • Nowe Horyzonty, Poland, 2022.
  • Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival, 2022.
  • Art of the Real, USA, 2022.
  • Atlantic Film Festival, Canada, 2022.
  • Gimli Film Festival, Canada, 2022.
  • Quebecine MX, Mexico, 2022.
  • Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada, 2022.
  • FNC - Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Canada, 2022.
  • Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, France, 2022.
  • CineMartinique, Martinique, 2022.
  • Indie Memphis, USA, 2022.
  • CinemAfrica, Stockholm, Sweden, 2022.
  • Viennale, Austria, 2022.
  • Perspectives Film Festival, Singapore, 2022.
  • AFI FEST Film Festival, USA, 2022
  • Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma, Canada, 2023.
This House

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Director: Miryam Charles

Script: Miryam Charles

DOP: Isabelle Stashchenko, Miryam Charles

Sound: Gordon Neil Allen, Olivier Calvert, Martin M. Messier

Editing: Xi Feng  

Music: Romain Camiolo, Miryam Charles

Production: Félix Dufour-Laperrière

Cast: Florence Blain Mbaye, Schelby Jean-Baptiste, Eve Duranceau, Yardly Kavanagh, Mireille Metellus, Nadine Jean, Tracy Marcelin, Matthew Rankin, Miryam Charles

Version

Original French & Creole
English subtitles

Format
16 mm/4:3/5.1
DCP, ProRes, H264

Miryam Charles
Miryam Charles
Quebec

Miryam Charles is a Haitian-Canadian filmmaker based in Montreal. Her films have been presented at various festivals in Quebec and internationally. Her first feature film, This House, premiered at the Berlinale and was later shown at the AFI Film Festival. It was also included in TIFF’s Top 10 and listed among Sight and Sound’s best films of 2022. Her work has been exhibited at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the MoMA, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, the Everson Museum, and the Palais de Tokyo.

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