Movies: Valeria Sarmiento

H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is fascinated: the dancer he sees on the screen seems to be looking straight into his eyes. He falls in l...

A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father....

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 was bored. That was a bone flute. The man with the flute music play. And music song became. The voice o...

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

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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 to flee before the police arrive. After Jean-Paul drives away, he picks up a hitchhiker. When the car,...

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

A right-wing family decides to exile themselves to Europe after Salvador Allende's victory during the presidential elections of 1970; only to find themselves losing their comfortable socio-economic status and be subjected to a dramatic proletarianiza...

Chilean director Valeria Sarmiento weaves a tale of love, betrayal, and civil unrest centering around a nightclub in 1950s pre-Communist Cuba in her 2002 romantic drama Rosa La China. Notorious businessman Santiago Ordenez (Juan Luis Galiardo), who p...

Documentary about Cuban education. El planeta de los niños is not a documentary and not a feature film. Sarmiento actually filmed a documentary subject with the mise-en-scène and the cutting of a feature film. Without further ado, she takes the viewe...

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

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 decide that what we receive was a story full of intentions; or we might decide that it was a spineless ...

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....

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....

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

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, reflects on the traces of the political violence of that period and summons the testimony of victims and ...

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

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