Cette Maison: Film Screening with Filmmaker Miryam Charles

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Cette Maison (2022) Screening and Filmmaker Q&A with Miryam Charles. French, Haitian Creole with English subtitles. Running Time 73 minutes.

A haunting meditation on grief through the prism of art, Montreal-based filmmaker Miryam Charles’s enigmatic and strikingly assured debut feature was one of the standout works of Canadian cinema in 2022. Charles, who has built an impressive body of abstract, experimental shorts over the past eight years, centres her ethereal film on a family trauma of almost unfathomable pain.

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.