Valeria Sarmiento Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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,...

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

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

Documentary about Cuban education. El planeta de los niños is not a documentary and not a feature film. Sarmiento actually filmed 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 series of philosophical dialogues on friendship, architecture, electricity, cannibalism and human rights.

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...

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

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia