Valeria Sarmiento Movies

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 man whose wife has committed suicide, appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere, under the bed, under tables… After...

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the...

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and...

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...

The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

This was a man. He lived with his mother. He cared a manor house in the countryside of Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden. The bone...

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 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 brutal sexual murder of a minor revolts the anger of the town. On the other hand, a psychologist, Sofia Belmar is not only shocked by the event,...

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