Valeria Sarmiento Movies

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...

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,...

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

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

A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series...

The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his...

A butcher whose meat is most tender, surrounded successively by ephemeral and delightful cashiers.

A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.

After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague...

The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although...

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

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

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

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia...

A journey back to the darkest years of the military dictatorship, where Valeria Sarmiento, using for the first time in her career her own voice,...

A short personal filmed journal about the director's nervousness in presenting a script and awaiting the decision about whether it can be made.

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

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

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

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