Valeria Sarmiento Filmes

  • 1987
    The Blind Owl

    The Blind Owl

    The Blind Owl

    7.31987HD

    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...

    The Blind Owl
  • 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
  • 1978
    Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait

    Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait

    Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait

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

    Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait
  • 2010
    Mysteries of Lisbon

    Mysteries of Lisbon

    Mysteries of Lisbon

    7.82010HD

    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...

    Mysteries of Lisbon
  • 2008
    Secrets

    Secrets

    Secrets

    4.52008HD

    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...

    Secrets
  • 2023
    Traces

    Traces

    Traces

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    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
  • 2002
    Rosa la China

    Rosa la China

    Rosa la China

    3.82002HD

    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
  • 1984
    Voyage of a Hand

    Voyage of a Hand

    Voyage of a Hand

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    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...

    Voyage of a Hand
  • 2012
    Night Across the Street

    Night Across the Street

    Night Across the Street

    6.3532012HD

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

    Night Across the Street
  • 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
  • 1987
    Brise-Glace: Histoires de glace

    Brise-Glace: Histoires de glace

    Brise-Glace: Histoires de glace

    61987HD

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

    Brise-Glace: Histoires de glace
  • 2018
    The Black Book

    The Black Book

    The Black Book

    5.42018HD

    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...

    The Black Book
  • 1998
    L'Inconnu de Strasbourg

    L'Inconnu de Strasbourg

    L'Inconnu de Strasbourg

    51998HD

    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...

    L'Inconnu de Strasbourg
  • 1989
    Derrière le Mur

    Derrière le Mur

    Derrière le Mur

    01989HD

    Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

    Derrière le Mur
  • 2005
    The Lost Domain

    The Lost Domain

    The Lost Domain

    5.92005HD

    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...

    The Lost Domain
  • 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
  • 1975
    La Femme au foyer

    La Femme au foyer

    La Femme au foyer

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

    La Femme au foyer
  • 1987
    Dog's Dialogue

    Dog's Dialogue

    Dog's Dialogue

    6.311987HD

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

    Dog's Dialogue
  • 1980
    Of Great Events and Ordinary People

    Of Great Events and Ordinary People

    Of Great Events and Ordinary People

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    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
  • 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