Valeria Sarmiento Movies

Chilean director Valeria Sarmiento weaves a tale of love, betrayal, and civil unrest centering around a nightclub in 1950s pre-Communist Cuba in her...

A documentary on the exiled Chilean painter Sotelo which focuses on the painter's voice rather than the paintings themselves.

A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.

If any single piece can act as a key to Ruiz, it may be the 1997 short Le Film à Venir (The Film to Come). The titular film is a holy fragment...

What are the social climate and cultural traditions in Costa Rica which nurture "machismo" and allow the domination of women to continue in Latin...

Third and final part of collaborative project Brise Glace. Directed by Raúl Ruíz.

A surreal travel drama, shot on Sicility with Italian actors. IlViaggio Clandestino is a film about saints and sinners. Whether you areblessed or...

A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.

In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’...

The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an...

A country house in the evening. A couple returns home to find a bailiff inside, busy taking inventory.

A right-wing family decides to exile themselves to Europe after Salvador Allende's victory during the presidential elections of 1970; only to find...

A brutal sexual murder of a minor revolts the anger of the town. On the other hand, a psychologist, Sofia Belmar is not only shocked by the event,...

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

The life of a right-wing housewife in Chile during the prior days to Salvador Allende's military overthrow.

A series of philosophical dialogues on friendship, architecture, electricity, cannibalism and human rights.

In Voyage of a Hand, Ruiz constructs another of his concentric labyrinths that hits us right in the multifaceted center of our confusion. We might...

Two salesmen in Honduras are looking everywhere for their lost pal.

Documentary about Cuban education. El planeta de los niños is not a documentary and not a feature film. Sarmiento actually filmed a...

Sarmiento made her directorial debut with the documentary with this short about a group of Chilean women dedicated to striptease.