Valeria Sarmiento Movies

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

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost.

With his body now devoid of substance and able to fly, N. wanders looking for a way to return to life and reintegrate into the world.

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

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...

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

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

The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and...

A sincere portrait, and in first person, of the multifaceted Andalusian artist José Pérez Ocaña.

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

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...

Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej".

The film concerns a group of disparate types who support themselves by running guns to the Arabs. On the surface, it would seem that these characters...

In Wind Water, Ruiz stages a three-way dialogue between three great cultures: the West, China and Arabia. He imagines what might occur if...

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...

"At that time (late 1992), I made a film for British television, Channel 4, called Las Soledades, the name of a long poem by Góngora. It was...

A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.

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

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,...