Promo Trailer for ‘Nuestra Tierra’ aka ‘Landmarks’ Doc from Argentina
by Alex Billington
September 6, 2025
Source: YouTube
“The Argentinian State trained me to do that.” The Match Factory has revealed a festival promo trailer for a documentary film called Landmarks, also known as Nuestra Tierra (which translates to Our Earth). This just premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival and will be screening at tons of other festivals this fall: San Sebastian, Toronto, New York, Vancouver, and London soon. In 2009, a man & two accomplices try to evict members of the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in northern Argentina. Claiming ownership of the land & armed with guns, they kill the community’s leader, Javier Chocobar. The murder is caught on video. It takes nine years of protests before court proceedings are finally opened in 2018 – director Lucrecia Martel started filming in order to make this doc. During all this time, the killers have remained free. The film combines the voices and photographs of the community with vérité courtroom footage to explore the long history of colonialism & land dispossession that led up to this crime. A fly on the wall doc that captures the lawsuit and realities of trying to get real justice in a broken world. It is still seeking proper distribution.
Here’s the festival promo trailer (+ poster) for Lucrecia Martel’s doc Nuestra Tierra, from YouTube:
Via NYFF: “In October 2009, Javier Chocobar, a member of the indigenous Chuchagasta community in northwest Argentina’s Tucumán Province, tried to defend himself & 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, filmmaker 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 [all of] 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 [have always] systematically tried to erase from history.” 🇦🇷
Nuestra Tierra, also titled Landmarks, is directed by acclaimed Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel, director of the films La ciénaga, The Holy Girl, The Headless Woman, and Zama previously, plus tons of other shorts. Produced by Rei Pictures (Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, Matias Roveda), Louverture Films (Joslyn Barnes), Piano (Julio Chavezmontes), Pio & Co (Sandrine Dumas, Marie-Pierre Macia, Claire Gadea), Snowglobe (Katrin Pors, Mikkel Jersi), Lemming Film (Leontine Petit, Erik Glijnis). This initially premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival in the Out of Competition section; it also plays at the Toronto, New York, London Film Fests next. No US release date is set yet – stay tuned for updates. Who’s intrigued?
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