Valeria Sarmiento Movies

The story of a neurotic bachelor who, after marrying a beautiful woman, submits her to increasingly deranged accusations of infidelity and pleas for...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

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...

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

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

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

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