TIFF 2025 Review: ‘Nuestra Tierra,’ Lucrecia Martel’s Stunning Documentary on Murder and Colonialism in Argentina

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In 2009, indigenous activist and Chuschagasta community leader Javier Chocobar was murdered. The case sent shockwaves through Argentina as three men stood accused of killing him. Video footage of his death went viral. Within and outside of the courtroom, the conversation moved from one of a violent death to the nation’s generations-long denial of its colonialist rot.

Lucrecia Martel is one of the best directors of the 21st century. While she only has four feature films to her name, each of them are masterpieces (and three of them were included in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films of all time.) Nuestra Tierra , a

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