Accalimed director Lucrecia Martel’s first documentary centers on the 2018 trial of the killers of a tribal elder in northern Argentina.
It offers a richly dense and poignant testimony to indigenous culture and its colonialist erasure.
The Spanish title, Nuestra Tierra, is more apt and accurate in exploring the murder of indigenous leader Javier Chocobar and the legacy of colonialism on Latin America.
Nuestra Tierra examines issues of land ownership in Argentina and the role of this history in the murder of Javier Chocobar, a Chuschagasta leader in the struggle for indigenous land rights.
Martel followed the case surrounding the 2009 murder of Javier Chocobar beginning in 2010 and attended the trial of Chocobar’s murderer.
In 2018, her project was awarded a grant through joint program of the Sundance Documentary Film Program and the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
The documentary had its world premiere out of competition in the 2025Venice Film Fest, amd screened at the New York Film Fest, and in competition at the 69th BFI London Film Fest.
We designated our AMOUR label: Abandoned, Misunderstood, Overlooked, Uderestimated, Revisited Films
