Indigenous leader Javier Chocobar was killed while trying to defend his community from the forced eviction from their lands. His death was captured on video.
With 'Our Land', Lucrecia Martel brings her unmistakable formal rigor to the documentary genre to explore the trial for the murder of Indigenous leader Javier Chocobar. With a camera that moves in and out, as if trying to capture the heartbeat of the land, Martel examines the territory and its wounds: impunity, dispossession, and the persistence of colonialism, questioning its presence and revealing an ethical distance at every turn. Her gaze, always attentive to the ways of inhabiting the land and the voices of resistance, transforms the search for justice into a sensory and political experience of what it means to belong to a land.
Antonia Girardi, artistic director of FIDOCS 29
Lucrecia Martel (Salta, Argentina) is a film director and screenwriter, internationally recognized for her work; her films are considered milestones of contemporary cinema. Her debut feature, 'La Ciénaga' (2001), won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlin Film Festival and the NHK Award at Sundance, among others.
With 'The Holy Girl' (2004) and 'The Headless Woman' (2008) she competed at the Cannes Film Festival, and 'Zama' (2017), her fourth feature film, received the Silver Condor for Best Film and Best Director and was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film. 'Our Land' (2025), her first documentary, premiered at the Venice Film Festival.