When we speak of “we” as a society, who is being referred to? Who is being left out?

That’s one of the prime questions underpinning Lucrecia Martel ’s documentary Nuestra Tierra ( Landmarks ) , which just screened at the Camden International Film Festival in Maine, following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and North American premiere at TIFF.

In the context of her home country of Argentina, which saw the Indigenous population wiped out or displaced through colonization by Spain and successive waves of European immigration, the question of “we” becomes particularly acute.

“Is it the white ones, children of immigrants?” Martel asked during a Q&A at CIFF. “Is it the Indigenous community? …We have made a great effort to keep them out of history. What does this wor

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