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Photo by © Rei Pictures – Louverture Films

Argentina, United States, Mexico, France, Netherlands, Denmark / 2025 / 122min
Director：Lucrecia MARTEL

Director Lucrecia Martel’s first feature-length documentary. It follows the 2009 killing of Javier Chocobar, an Indigenous leader in northern Argentina, who was murdered while trying to protect his ancestral land, and the subsequent trial. The film situates the incident within a 500-year history of colonial violence and land dispossession, exposing the structural injustices that persist in contemporary Argentina.

In 2009, in northern Argentina’s Tucumán Province, Javier Chocobar, a leader of the Indigenous Chuchagasta community, was shot and killed on the front lines of a land dispute. Centered on the court battle that began nine years later, the film carefully traces the colonial legacy that continues to shape struggles over land rights and ownership. Moving between courtroom scenes related to the murder case and images of the mountainous region where the conflict took place, along with the daily lives of Indigenous people, the film weaves together diverse materials—trial footage, witness testimony, archival photographs, aerial shots—not in chronological order, but deliberately offset and collaged like a mosaic. Gradually, the film reveals how colonial-era procedures and contracts remain embedded in and active through modern systems, while also bringing to the surface the history and memory held within the land itself. The film had its world premiere in the Out of Competition section at the Venice Film Festival.