Lucrecia Martel ‘s documentary “ Landmarks ” (“Nuestra Tierra”) was awarded best film in the official competition of this year’s London Film Festival .

“Landmarks” explores the murder of Indigenous leader Javier Chocobar and the legacy of colonialism in Latin America. Of selecting the film, the competition jury — which was led by president Elizabeth Karlsen — said: “With deep empathy and extraordinary journalistic and cinematic rigor, the director Lucrecia Martel dives deep into the events surrounding the 2009 murder of the Chuschagasta leader Javier Chocobar, in Argentina’s Tucumán Province. In foregrounding present-day voices and neglected histories, Martel emerges with a portrait of — and for — an Indigenous community, and grants them a measure of the justice the courts have long

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