Valeria Sarmiento Movies

  • 1976
    Utopia: The Scattered Body and the World Upside Down

    Utopia: The Scattered Body and the World Upside Down

    Utopia: The Scattered Body and the World Upside Down

    6.41976HD

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

    Utopia: The Scattered Body and the World Upside Down
  • 1974
    The Expropriation

    The Expropriation

    The Expropriation

    6.41974HD

    The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although...

    The Expropriation
  • 1990
    Brise-glace

    Brise-glace

    Brise-glace

    5.81990HD

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

    Brise-glace
  • 1978
    Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait

    Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait

    Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait

    4.41978HD

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

    Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait
  • 1994
    The Clandestine Journey: Lives of Saints and Sinners

    The Clandestine Journey: Lives of Saints and Sinners

    The Clandestine Journey: Lives of Saints and Sinners

    01994HD

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

    The Clandestine Journey: Lives of Saints and Sinners
  • 1975
    La Femme au foyer

    La Femme au foyer

    La Femme au foyer

    81975HD

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

    La Femme au foyer
  • 1973
    A Dream as in Colours

    A Dream as in Colours

    A Dream as in Colours

    01973HD

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

    A Dream as in Colours
  • 1992
    The Solitudes

    The Solitudes

    The Solitudes

    5.51992HD

    "At that time (late 1992), I made a film for British television, Channel 4, called Las Soledades, the name of a long poem by Góngora. It was...

    The Solitudes
  • 1982
    On Top of the Whale

    On Top of the Whale

    On Top of the Whale

    71982HD

    A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia...

    On Top of the Whale
  • 1989
    L'Autel de l'amitié

    L'Autel de l'amitié

    L'Autel de l'amitié

    01989HD

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

    L'Autel de l'amitié
  • 2023
    Traces

    Traces

    Traces

    02023HD

    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,...

    Traces
  • 1992
    Planet of the Children

    Planet of the Children

    Planet of the Children

    61992HD

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

    Planet of the Children
  • 1995
    Wind Water

    Wind Water

    Wind Water

    51995HD

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

    Wind Water
  • 2002
    Rosa la China

    Rosa la China

    Rosa la China

    4.22002HD

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

    Rosa la China
  • 1989
    Derrière le Mur

    Derrière le Mur

    Derrière le Mur

    01989HD

    Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

    Derrière le Mur
  • 1980
    Of Great Events and Ordinary People

    Of Great Events and Ordinary People

    Of Great Events and Ordinary People

    71980HD

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

    Of Great Events and Ordinary People
  • 1997
    The Film to Come

    The Film to Come

    The Film to Come

    6.31997HD

    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...

    The Film to Come
  • 1983
    Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film

    Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film

    Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film

    61983HD

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

    Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film
  • 1976
    Sotelo

    Sotelo

    Sotelo

    01976HD

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

    Sotelo