Nuestra Tierra (Landmarks)
Singapore Premiere
Lucrecia Martel Argentina, US, Mexico, France, Netherlands, Denmark 2025 119 min NC16 (Some Coarse Language)
The nine-year battle to bring to trial the murderers of an Indigenous leader in Argentina exposes the colonial legacy that enabled them.
In October 2009, Javier Chocobar, a Chuschagasta Indigenous community leader in northern Argentina, was gunned down by the local landowner and two former police officers when he tried to defend himself and his people from being forcibly evicted from his community’s ancestral land. Despite the murder being captured on video, it took nine years of protests before the culprits were brought to trial. By alternating between tense courtroom footage, breathtaking views of the stolen land and vestiges of Chocobar and his fellow Chuchagasta people, Martel exposes the injustices rooted in Argentina’s centuries-old colonial past and pays cinematic tribute to the community’s resistance against systemic erasure.
Synopsis Writer: Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa
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2 Dec, Tue 7:00PM / 119 min
Oldham Theatre
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Nuestra Tierra (Landmarks)
Nuestra Tierra
Lucrecia Martel
Argentina, US, Mexico, France, Netherlands, Denmark
2025
Spanish
119 min
NC16 (Some Coarse Language)
Singapore Premiere
Lucrecia Martel
Lucrecia Martel is a vital voice in New Argentine Cinema, renowned for her critique of Argentina’s colonial legacies and its middle class. Her critically acclaimed films include the Berlinale Silver Bear winner La Ciénaga (2001), Cannes main competiton title La niña santa (2004) and Zama (2017), which premiered at Venice.
Benjamin Domenech,
Santiago Galelli,
Matías Roveda,
Joslyn Barnes,
Julio Chavezmontes,
Javier Leoz
