Film Screening of "Nuestra Tierra (Landmarks)" and Q&A with Filmmaker Lucrecia Martel

In a prolific year of narratives and documentaries reckoning the profound lasting effects colonialism has had on generations of indigenous people, Lucrecia Martel’s latest Nuestra Tierra/Landmarks might be the most brazen condemnation. Martel—having already proven her mastery of deflating the European-linked bourgeoises in Argentina through her narrative films—sets her sights on the three men accused of murdering Chuschagasta leader Javier Chocobar in 2009. Through eye witness accounts, police records, and grainy video, Martel exposes the arrogance on display when wealthy landowners, Dario Luis Amín and ex-police officers Luis Humberto Gómez and José Valdiviesoare approached by a small group of Chuschagasta residents. Words are exchanged, and a gun is fired—multiple times. Still reeling from the murder, Chuschagasta residents are interviewed and given a chance to finally share their story rather than be sidelined in the margins. It all comes to a head in an enraging, if not utterly fascinating, courtroom proceedings where tone cuts as much as a bullet to the gut. A film that all should see, Nuestra Tierra is a more than worthy addition to a magnificent filmography.

View the trailer HERE.
View interview related to the Venice Festival in Spanish HERE.

ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER

Critically acclaimed filmmaker Lucrecia Martel (1966, Argentina) is considered one of the leading auteurs of Latin American cinema. Mostly self-taught, Martel started making animated short films in her early twenties before receiving international renown with her first feature La ciénaga (2001). It won numerous international awards including the Alfred Bauer Prize at Berlin. Her subsequent features further consolidated her reputation in world cinema. La niña santa (2004) and La mujer sin cabeza (2008) were both nominated for a Palme d’Or and Zama (2017) was chosen to represent Argentina in the Oscar and Goya Awards. Supported by the Hubert Bals Fund three times, HBF Development in 2019, NFF+HBF 2020 and Dutch Post-production Award 2021, her latest film Nuestra Tierra / Landmarks (2025), about colonial violence and the struggle of Indigenous communities for justice, had its premiere in the Venice Film Festival. 

FILMOGRAPHY

El 56/The 56 (1988, short), Piso 24/24th Floor (1989, short), No te la llevarás, maldito/You Won’t Get Her, Bastard (1989, short), La otra/The Other (1990, short doc), Besos rojos/Red Kisses (1991, short), Magazine for Fai (1995, TV series, episode: 1° capítulo), Rey muerto/Dead King (1995, short), Encarnación Ezcurra (1998, TV doc), Silvina Ocampo (1998, TV, doc), Las dependencias/The Outbuildings (1999, TV doc), La ciénaga/The Swamp (2000), La niña santa/The Holy Girl (2004), La ciudad que huye/The City That Flees (2006, short), La mujer sin cabeza/The Headless Woman (2008), Nueva Argirópolis/New Argirópolis (2010, short), Pescados/Fish (2010, short), Muta/Mutate (2011, short), El aula vacía/The Empty Classroom (2015, doc, co-dir), Zama (2017), Nuestra tierra / Landmarks (2025).
 

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