Valeria Sarmiento Movies

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

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

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

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

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

Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.

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

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.

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...

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

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

"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...

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

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

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

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,...

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

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