Valeria Sarmiento Filmes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

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