The Wandering Soap Opera (Spanish: La telenovela errante) is a 2017 Chilean surrealist film directed by Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento.

[3] Ruiz directed the film in 1990 and Sarmiento supervised the editing in 2017.

[4] In seven chapters, Chilean reality is portrayed as a surreal collection of soap operas that overlap with one another.

[5] The Wandering Soap Opera was originally filmed by Raúl Ruiz in 1990, but was unfinished.

[7] The Cinema Guild distributed the film in North America.