IFFR 2025
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      Valeria Sarmiento

      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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