NUESTRA TIERRA (LANDMARKS)
Directed by Lucrecia Martel
(ZAMA, THE HEADLESS WOMAN)
TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
Thursday, September 4 @ 11:30AM – TIFF Lightbox 3 – P&I
Monday, September 8 @ 12:30PM – TIFF Lightbox 4 – PREMIERE
Tuesday, September 9 @ 3:40PM – Scotiabank 9 – Q&A
Lucrecia Martel is attending the festival and is available for
select press interviews
“SPECTACULAR”
Jonathan Romney, SCREEN
“VISUALLY SPLENDID.
A searing and detailed chronicle of murder, bigotry and robbery on a massive scale”
Jordan Mintzer, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
*CRITICS PICK*
“the most disturbing true crime you’ll see this year”
Ryan Lattanzio, INDIEWIRE
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 Chocobar was shot and killed, and two other community members were wounded. In her expansive and enlightening first feature documentary, Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel (Zama, 2017) 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.
Directed by Lucrecia Martel
Screenplay by Lucrecia Martel and María Alché
Produced by Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Galelli, Matías Roveda, Joslyn Barnes, Julio Chavezmontes, Javier Leoz
US Sales: Cinetic Media
International Sales: The Match Factory
2025 / Argentina, USA, Mexico, France, The Netherlands, Denmark / 122 min