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Valeria Sarmiento

Valéria SARMIENTO (1948, Chile) studied film and philosophy at the University of Valparaiso. In 1972 she made her first documentary, Un sueño como de dolores. Since 1974 she has been based in Paris, where she has worked as a director and editor of films by Raúl Ruiz, Luc Moullet and Robert Kramer. After her husband Raúl Ruiz passed away, Sarmiento finished his film The Wandering Soap Opera (2017) as well as The Tango of the Widower (2020). In 2008 Standford University held a symposium on the portrayal of feminism in Sarmiento’s films and in 2018 the Cinémathèque Française created a retrospective on her work.

Filmography

Un sueño como de dolores (1972, doc), La femme au foyer (1976), Le mal du pays (1979, doc), El hombre, cuando es hombre/A Man, When He Is a Man (1982, doc), Mi boda contigo/Notre mariage (1984), Musique pour film et orchestra (1987, doc), 90 secondes, une oeuvre (1989), Amélia Lopes O’Neil (1990), El planeta de los niños (1992), Latin Women (1992, doc), El derecho de soñar (1993, doc), Elle (1995), Voyage dans le temps (1998, doc), L’inconnu de Strasbourg (1998), Mon premier french can-can (1999, doc), Rosa la China (2002), Au louvre avec barcelo (2004, doc), Secretos/Secrets (2008), Lines of Wellington (2012, co-dir), La telenovela errante/The Wandering Soap Opera (2017, co-dir), O caderno negro/The Black Book of Father Dinis (2018), El tango del viudo y su espejo deformante/The Tango of the Widower (2020, co-dir)

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Valeria Sarmiento op IFFR

  • Dialogue d’exilés

    Raúl Ruiz | 100' | Chile | None

    The first and one of the most equivocal works of Chilean exile cinema.

  • La femme au foyer

    Valeria Sarmiento | 23' | France | None

    A woman of right-wing convictions spends her days at home, outside a putsch is imminent.

  • Klimt (director’s cut)

    Raúl Ruiz | 129' | Austria | World première

    A virtuoso homage to an artist and his life, the film is set against the rich historical tapestry of the fin de siècle. Screening of…

  • Secretos

    Valeria Sarmiento | 89' | Chile | International premiere

    Comedy written by Raúl Ruiz about several Chileans who cannot hide their all too human sides forever. When a certain El Traitor returns to Pari

  • La noche de enfrente

    Raúl Ruiz | 110' | Chile | None

    Last film directed by Ruiz, the most screened director in the history of the Rotterdam Film Festival. A farewell letter from a free-associating, inten

  • La ville des pirates

    Raúl Ruiz | 111' | France | -

    Surrealist Ruiz film with echoes of Buñuel’s L’Age d’Or. The pirate city is a ghost castle on a rocky island, in which a group of…

  • Rosa la China

    Valeria Sarmiento | 100' | Cuba | -

    Colourful, vital story of love, betrayal and civil restlessness around a nightclub in Havana in pre-Communist Cuba in the 1950s. The singer Rosa cheat

  • Ce jour-là

    Raúl Ruiz | 105' | France | -

    Black comedy about money, death and false spirituality that brings together an unlikely romantic couple: a spoilt society girl and a serial killer who

  • Une place parmi les vivants

    Raúl Ruiz | 103' | France | -

    Philosophical film-noir caricature, inspired by gangster films and detective stories from the 1950s. A translator of pulp fiction is asked to write a

  • Les trois couronnes du matelot

    Raúl Ruiz | 117' | France | -

    Orson Welles meets Hans Christian Andersen, Edgar Allan Poe and others in Ruiz’ first major commercial success in his new home of France.