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Valeria Sarmiento

Valeria Sarmiento

Valeria Sarmiento (born 29 October 1948) is a film editor, director and screenwriter best known for her work in France, Portugal and her native Chile. She has worked both in film and television, directing 20 feature films, documentaries and television series'. She is the widow of Chilean film director Raúl Ruiz (1941-2011) with whom she collaborated for decades as regular editor and co-writer. She has also edited films for Luc Moullet, Robert Kramer and Ventura Pons .

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Movies Made By Valeria Sarmiento (59)

Traces (2023)

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 privil ...

Socialist Realism (2023)

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 of short stories, in which different worlds cross paths. ...

A Man, When He Is a Man (2023)

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

The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (2020)

A man's wife commits suicide and appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere – under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her. ...

The Black Book (2018)

The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from ...

The Wandering Soap Opera (2018)

The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas. ...

Lines of Wellington (2012)

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon's 1810 invasion of Portugal. ...

A Closed Book (2012)

Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer's abrupt eccentricities. But, gradually, we come aware that Jane has another agenda. Incrementally, Sir Paul's familiar surroundings are altered. His housekeeper is diverted away, ...

Night Across the Street (2012)

A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories. ...

Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the con ...

Nucingen House (2009)

Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there. ...

Secrets (2008)

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 and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current cou ...

La Recta Provincia (2007)

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 of the ...

Klimt (2006)

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century. ...

The Lost Domain (2005)

Set in 1973 during the coup d'etat in Chile, Max recalls his encounters in London during World War II with French aviator Antoine, a childhood hero he first met in his native country one morning in 1932 and who initiated him to the wonders of aviation. ...

A Place Among the Living (2003)

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

That Day (2003)

A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other. ...

Rosa la China (2002)

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 primari ...

Savage Souls (2001)

At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes th ...

Love Torn in a Dream (2000)

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 unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the conve ...

L'Inconnu de Strasbourg (1998)

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, stole ...

The Film to Come (1997)

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 of celluloid that can only be seen by a secret society known as the Philokinetes. They watch it on a loop, somna ...

Genealogies of a Crime (1997)

An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies. ...

Elle (1996)

The story of a neurotic bachelor who, after marrying a beautiful woman, submits her to increasingly deranged accusations of infidelity and pleas for forgiveness. ...

Wind Water (1995)

Wind Water (1995)

In Wind Water, Ruiz stages a three-way dialogue between three great cultures: the West, China and Arabia. He imagines what might occur if Shih-T'ao's six poetic procedures for attaining the primal respiration or cosmic breath in painting were applied to on ...

The Clandestine Journey: Lives of Saints and Sinners (1994)

A surreal travel drama, shot on Sicility with Italian actors. IlViaggio Clandestino is a film about saints and sinners. Whether you areblessed or doomed is often dependent on someone's soul that on whether theypray or suffer. The kindred spirit of San Gil ...

The Solitudes (1992)

"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 made in Chile, using many poetic elements of the country. Chile is seen through the eyes of a Chinese painter—a ...

Amelia Lópes O'Neill (1992)

A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister. ...

Planet of the Children (1992)

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 viewer in ...

Three Crowns of the Sailor (1991)

Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story. ...

Brise-glace (1990)

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

L'Autel de l'amitié (1989)

L'Autel de l'amitié (1989)

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

Derrière le Mur (1989)

Derrière le Mur (1989)

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia ...

Tous les nuages sont des horloges (1988)

Tous les nuages sont des horloges (1988)

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

The Blind Owl (1987)

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 man claiming to be his uncle, his world begins to mirror a macabre and cyclical narrative. ...

Brise-Glace: Histoires de glace (1987)

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

Dog's Dialogue (1987)

A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills. ...

Boucherie fine (1987)

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

Dans un miroir (1986)

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

Treasure Island (1986)

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 tip him into an universe of adventures. ...

Notre mariage (1985)

Notre mariage (1985)

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

Voyage of a Hand (1984)

Voyage of a Hand (1984)

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 joke e ...

City of Pirates (1984)

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities. ...

Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film (1983)

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

On Top of the Whale (1982)

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which ...

The Territory (1981)

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost. ...

Guns (1980)

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 are bad guys. In fact, the guns are to be used by a resistance group who hope to continue shipping oil to ...

Of Great Events and Ordinary People (1980)

In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris' eleventh arrondissement. But, contrary to the producers' expectation, the Left lost. Ruiz seized on this anti-climax ...

The One-Eyed Man (1980)

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. ...

Origins of a Meal (1979)

Bananas, eggs, and tuna: three basic foodstuffs with three wildly different points of origin. Moullet begins with these on his plate but constructs his film by working backwards and finding the sources for these items and how they reach our plates. As Moul ...

The Suspended Vocation (1978)

The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church. Ruiz's intention was to reflect the ideological argumen ...

Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait (1978)

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

Utopia: The Scattered Body and the World Upside Down (1976)

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

Sotelo (1976)

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

Dialogues of the Exiles (1975)

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

La Femme au foyer (1975)

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

Les transplantés (1975)

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 proletarianization t ...

The Expropriation (1974)

The Expropriation (1974)

The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although the action was filmed in four days and four nights in 1971, the movie was only finished in France in 1973, a ...

A Dream as in Colours (1973)

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

Movies Starring Valeria Sarmiento (2)

Voyage of a Hand (1984)

Voyage of a Hand (1984)

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 joke e ...

Dialogues of the Exiles (1975)

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

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