"Part procedural, part granular portrait of an increasingly silenced demographic, NUESTRA TIERRA asserts the global scale of Indigenous persecution from its opening shot." - Natalia Keogan, The A.V. Club
" A slow-burning, increasingly incensed unraveling of a horrific murder case underpinned by colonialist privilege and prejudice... with steadily rising emotional impact and a long view of Latin American history that transcends any true-crime trappings." – Guy Lodge, Variety
Opens May 8 | 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. (NYFF) Siskel Film Center exclusive.
Awards & Nominations
2025 New York Film Festival - Official Selection
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