OUR LAND

[NUESTRA TIERRA]
In October 2009, Javier Chocobar, a member of the Indigenous Chuchagasta community in northwest Argentina’s Tucumán Province, tried to defend himself and his people from being forcibly evicted from their land by a local landowner and two former police officers. As a result, the 68-year-old man was shot and killed, and two other community members were wounded. In her expansive and enlightening first feature documentary, Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel (ZAMA) takes a sweeping approach to this tragic true story, triangulating the murder trial of the three men, the lives of Chocobar and his fellow Chuchagasta people and the centuries-old, colonialist legacy of land and property theft across Latin America. With a ravishing, at times vertiginous visual approach to filming the natural beauty of the contested land, Martel pays cinematic tribute to people whom others systematically tried to erase from history. (Note courtesy of the New York Film Festival.) Official Selection, 2025 Venice, Toronto, Chicago and London film festivals. DIR/SCR Lucrecia Martel; SCR María Alché; PROD Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, Matías Roveda, Joslyn Barnes, Julio Chavezmontes, Javier Leoz. Argentina/U.S./Mexico/ France/Netherlands/Denmark, 2025, color, 122 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED

Run Time: 122 Minutes

Opening Date: Sunday, March 22, 2026

Genre: Documentary

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