Valeria Sarmiento Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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 small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they...

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.

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

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...

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

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