Valeria Sarmiento Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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...

In Paris, an Arab immigrant working as a projectionist becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman he sees on the cinema screen. Following a visit from...

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

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.

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

A country house in the evening. A couple returns home to find a bailiff inside, busy taking inventory.

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

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

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

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,...

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

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...