Valeria Sarmiento Movies

H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is...

Bananas, eggs, and tuna: three basic foodstuffs with three wildly different points of origin. Moullet begins with these on his plate but constructs...

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a...

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

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

Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.

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

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

Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul...

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

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

A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting.

Set in 1973 during the coup d'etat in Chile, Max recalls his encounters in London during World War II with French aviator Antoine, a childhood hero...

This was a man. He lived with his mother. He cared a manor house in the countryside of Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden. The bone...

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

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...

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

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