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...

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

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

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

A short personal filmed journal about the director's nervousness in presenting a script and awaiting the decision about whether it can be made.

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...

Chile is seen through the eyes of a Chinese painter - a traditional painter who uses the concepts of XVIII century Shih-T'ao.

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.

A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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