The Criterion Channel, a prime site for streaming classic movies, also offers noteworthy new international and independent films, including “Cette Maison” (“This House”), the first feature by the Haitian Canadian director Miryam Charles, a daring blend of documentary and fantasy that invests a deeply personal drama with a wide historical scope. In 2008, Charles’s fourteen-year-old cousin, Terra, who lived in Bridgeport, Connecticut, was sexually assaulted and killed in her home. In the film, she is presented as a character named Tessa (Schelby Jean-Baptiste) and is portrayed, in the course of her lifetime and in the present day, as eternally fourteen. Tessa is paired with her mother, Valeska (Florence Blain Mbaye), in scenes set in their home town and in the house of relatives in Quebec, and also on a theatrical set from which they imagine—and summon to the screen—filmed images of the family’s home country of Haiti, while Charles’s incantatory voice-over evokes Tessa’s fictional first-person point of view. The dramatic reconstruction is essentially a ghost story, and Charles endows the actors with hieratic tones and gestures as she conjures a mother-daughter bond—and a life of self-exploration and wide adventure—unbound by the limits of time.