Documentary about Cuban education. El planeta de los niños is not a documentary and not a feature film. Sarmiento actually filmed a documentary subject with the mise-en-scène and the cutting of a feature film. Without further ado, she takes the viewer into a world where adults would appear to have died out ; a society within which all functions and professions are held by children with deadly seriousness as if things have always been this way. Only right at the end does Sarmiento reveal that she shot the film at the 'Escuele de Pioneros' set up in Cuba in 1979, an institution which Fidel Castro gave to the children of his people to prepare themselves for a later working life. The film opens with an as-good-as-real wedding ceremony and progresses via a birth to a simulated battle ; from birth to death. The subtle irony with which Sarmiento portrays this 'Utopian' world was not understood by all German critics.

1998 film by Valeria Sarmiento

1991 film by Valeria Sarmiento

1985 film directed by Valeria Sarmiento

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

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 . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed.

故事以十八世紀末葉爲背景，寫兩個身份神秘的人之經歷:一個身世不明的孤兒和負責照顧他,同樣不知身份的意大利裔年輕保母。由羅馬到巴黎，里斯本到倫敦，再由帕爾馬到威尼斯。為了不明的原因，沿途都有一個可疑的卡拉布里亞人和一個情緒不安的紅衣主教在暗處跟着他們。隨着他們腳蹤的帶領讓我們發現了梵蒂岡不為人知的陰謀；足以致命的激情所帶來的痛苦；血腥的決鬥，還有凡爾賽宮的貴族如何互相戲謔嘲弄，以及正進行得如火如荼的法國大革命。