Valeria Sarmiento

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 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 story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins ...

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 ...

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

After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a ...

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

Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells ...

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

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.

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

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