This House (film)

This House
FrenchCette maison
Directed byMiryam Charles
Written byMiryam Charles
Produced byFélix Dufour-Laperrière
StarringSchelby Jean-Baptiste
Florence Blain Mbaye
CinematographyMiryam Charles
Isabelle Stachtchenko
Edited byXi Feng
Music byRomain Camiolo
Production
company
L'Embuscade Films
Distributed byTape
La Distributrice des films
Release date
  • February 13, 2022 (2022-02-13) (Berlin)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesFrench
Haitian Creole

This House (French: Cette maison) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Miryam Charles and released in 2022.[1] Based around the suspicious death of her teenage cousin Tessa in 2008, the film examines the event's impact on her family through a blend of documentary footage with a scripted drama in which an adult version of Tessa (Schelby Jean-Baptiste) continues to interact with her grieving mother Valeska (Florence Blain Mbaye) in a liminal space between life and death.[2]

The film's cast also includes Ève Duranceau, Nadine Jean, Yardly Kavanagh, Mireille Metellus and Matthew Rankin.

The film premiered in the Forum program at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival on February 13,[3] and had its Canadian premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in April.[4]

The film was longlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's 2022 Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award.[5] It was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022.[6]

  1. ^ Marc van de Klashorst, "Berlinale 2022 review: This House (Miryam Charles)". International Cinephile Society, February 18, 2022.
  2. ^ Mark Hanson, "This House Review: Hope, Grief, and a Ghost Story". Point of View, April 30, 2022.
  3. ^ "Le premier film de Miryam Charles, sélectionné à la Berlinale". Ici Radio-Canada, January 18, 2022.
  4. ^ Radheyan Simonpillai, "Canada’s Rising Screen Stars: Miryam Charles". Now, April 6, 2022.
  5. ^ "JEAN-MARC VALLÉE DGC DISCOVERY AWARD LONG LIST DROPS AT VISIONARIES" Archived 2022-09-29 at the Wayback Machine. Yahoo! Movies, September 11, 2022.
  6. ^ Pat Mullen, "Three Feature Docs Make Canada’s Top Ten". Point of View, December 8, 2022.