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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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01 September 1981
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost.
12 June 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.
28 August 2003
A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
01 April 1985
A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.
23 April 1975
Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.
09 October 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 .
01 January 1987
A butcher whose meat is most tender, surrounded successively by ephemeral and delightful cashiers.
05 February 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.
03 March 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.
20 August 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.
27 July 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.
01 January 1988
A country house in the evening. A couple returns home to find a bailiff inside, busy taking inventory.
01 June 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.
21 February 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.
04 April 1975
The life of a right-wing housewife in Chile during the prior days to Salvador Allende's military overthrow.
11 July 2012
A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.
01 January 1995
In Wind Water, Ruiz stages a three-way dialogue between three great cultures: the West, China and Arabia.
22 February 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.
16 November 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).
19 August 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.
04 October 2012
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.
03 June 2009
Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.
19 October 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 privileged witnesses, but also the opinion of scientists, memory theorists and researchers of genocides of other times.
01 January 1974
The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform).
18 July 1984
In Voyage of a Hand, Ruiz constructs another of his concentric labyrinths that hits us right in the multifaceted center of our confusion.
04 June 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.
01 January 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.
01 January 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.
01 July 1976
Two salesmen in Honduras are looking everywhere for their lost pal.
02 January 1992
Documentary about Cuban education. El planeta de los niños is not a documentary and not a feature film.
10 October 1989
A series of philosophical dialogues on friendship, architecture, electricity, cannibalism and human rights.
24 February 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.
04 May 1997
An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
20 May 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.
04 February 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.
01 January 1994
A surreal travel drama, shot on Sicility with Italian actors. IlViaggio Clandestino is a film about saints and sinners.
01 January 1989
Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia
03 October 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.
21 October 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.
13 July 2012
Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer's abrupt eccentricities.
01 February 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.
06 September 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.
27 September 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.
01 June 1978
A sincere portrait, and in first person, of the multifaceted Andalusian artist José Pérez Ocaña.
04 October 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.
22 November 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.
31 December 1987
In Paris, an Arab immigrant working as a projectionist becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman he sees on the cinema screen.
02 January 1986
A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting.
13 November 1987
A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.
01 January 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 that will lead them to all kinds of struggles.
05 September 1990
Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej".
01 October 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.
18 November 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.
07 October 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.
02 August 1973
Sarmiento made her directorial debut with the documentary with this short about a group of Chilean women dedicated to striptease.
09 April 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?
23 September 2023
A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.
15 December 1987
Third and final part of collaborative project Brise Glace. Directed by Raúl Ruíz.
01 January 1976
A documentary on the exiled Chilean painter Sotelo which focuses on the painter's voice rather than the paintings themselves.
