Song for the New World

Song for the New World

Miryam Charles

Screening 1
Tickets

Aug 15 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Doors open at 6 pm
La Cenne

Haitian creole (English subtitles)

Canada, 2021
Experimental
Short (9 minutes)

video-play

Synopsis

Following the disappearance of a man in Scotland, his daughter recalls words chanted before nightfall.

Director Biography

Miryam Charles

Miryam Charles is a Haitian-born director, producer and cinematographer. She has produced several short and feature-length fiction films. Her films have been presented at various festivals in Quebec and abroad. In 2022, her first feature film, Cette maison, was presented at the Berlinale, the AFI film festival, the Viennale, the TIFF Top 10 and was named one of Sight and Sound’s best films of the year. The same year, she released the short film Au crépuscule at the Locarno Film Festival. She is currently working on the films Le Marabout and L’île aux trésors.