23rd edition November 20th to 28th, 2026
23rd edition
20 to 28 November, 2026
Born in Salta, Argentina, Lucrecia Martel is a film director and screenwriter whose work has received international acclaim. La Ciénaga, her debut film, was followed by The Holy Girl, The Headless Woman, and Zama, all of which are considered major works of contemporary cinema. Landmarks is Martel’s fifth film and the first non-fiction work of her career.
In October 2009, 68-year-old 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, Chocobar was shot and killed, and two other community members were wounded. In her expansive and enlightening first feature-length documentary, Lucrecia Martel 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.
Director Lucrecia Martel
Producer Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Galelli, Matías Roveda, Joslyn Barnes, Julio Chavezmontes, Javier Leoz
Screenwriter Lucrecia Martel, María Alché
Cinematographer Ernesto de Carvalho
Editor Jeronimo Pérez Rioja, Miguel Schverdfinger
Sound Guido Berenblum
Music Alfonso Olguín
Production Companies Rei Pictures, Louverture Films, Piano
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