Bridgeport, 2008. A teenage girl is found dead in her bedroom. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager looks into the past and future causes of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film explores the relationship between the security of one’s living space and the violence that can jeopardize it.

From Haitian descent, Miryam Charles is a director, producer and cinematographer living in Montreal. Her debut feature film Cette Maison (This House) premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival (Forum) in 2022, and has since screened at many festivals, cinematheques and arts institutions worldwide. Her award-winning work explores themes related to exile and the legacies of colonization.

Initiated in 2021, Black Archive is an itinerant film program that gathers filmmakers, artists and thinkers engaged in rethinking, challenging and revisiting the cinematic representation of Black bodies, narratives and imaginaries beyond stereotyped visions and narrow distribution circuits.

The program is conceived by Black Archive: Sofia Dati, Stéphane Gérard, Maxime Jean-Baptiste and Eden Tinto Collins.