A gripping real-life struggle over land, justice, and history in the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta, in Argentina, unfolds in Our Land (Nuestra tierra), the powerful documentary from Lucrecia Martel.
Known for influential works such as La Ciénaga and Zama, Martel shifts from narrative filmmaking into documentary territory, focusing on the 2009 killing of Indigenous leader Javier Chocobar and the long legal and political battle that followed.
Featuring the voices and experiences of the Chuschagasta Indigenous community, Our Land blends courtroom material, archival imagery, and intimate testimony to craft a complex portrait of a community fighting for justice and recognition.
Our Land premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival under the English title Landmarks, before going on to win the top prize at the BFI London Film Festival. The film continued its festival journey with screenings at the New York Film Festival, San Sebastián International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, and Camden International Film Festival. Following its acclaimed festival run, the documentary will open in U.S. theaters beginning May 1, 2026, opening at Film Forum in New York City before expanding to Los Angeles and other cities.
Acclaimed Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel (Zama, The Headless Woman) takes a sweeping approach to this tragic true story, triangulating the murder trial of three men, the lives of activist Chocobar and his fellow Chuchagasta people, and the centuries-old, colonialist legacy of land and property theft across Latin America.
In 2009, a man and two accomplices tried to evict members of the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in northern Argentina. Claiming ownership of the land and armed with guns, they kill the community’s leader, Javier Chocobar. The murder is caught on video. It takes nine years of protests before court proceedings are finally opened in 2018. During all this time, the killers remain free. The film combines the voices and photographs of the community with courtroom footage to explore the long history of colonialism and land dispossession that led to this crime.
In a statement to Venice Film Festival, Martel said, “This film chronicles Argentina’s strategies to deny the Chuschagasta Community their territory. Drawing from the 2018 trial of Javier Chocobar’s assassins (2009), community conversations, and their photo archives, we reconstructed the community’s journey from the 17th century to today.”
Watch the official trailer for Our Land, above.
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