Valeria Sarmiento Movies

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

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

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

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

A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.

Bananas, eggs, and tuna: three basic foodstuffs with three wildly different points of origin. Moullet begins with these on his plate but constructs...

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

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

What are the social climate and cultural traditions in Costa Rica which nurture "machismo" and allow the domination of women to continue in Latin...

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.

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

A surreal travel drama, shot on Sicility with Italian actors. IlViaggio Clandestino is a film about saints and sinners. Whether you areblessed or...

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

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

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

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

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

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