Director: Lucrecia Martel
Our Land is a 2026 feature documentary directed by Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel. Running about one hundred and nineteen minutes, it examines a dispute over land in northern Argentina and the legal proceedings that followed it.
What is Our Land about?
The film centres on the community of Chuschagasta, an Indigenous group in the northern Argentine region of Tucumán, and an incident recorded in 2009. According to the events documented on screen, a group of armed men arrived claiming ownership of the land, and the confrontation that followed ended with the death of a community leader, Javier Chocobar. Part of what took place was captured on video. Martel then traces the years that passed before formal court proceedings finally began in 2018, drawing on photographs, first-person accounts from residents, and footage recorded inside the courtroom. Rather than following a single narrator, the documentary assembles these materials to set out the sequence of events and the wider history of land-ownership disputes in the area.
Cast & crew
As a documentary, Our Land carries no scripted cast. The people seen on screen are members of the Chuschagasta community and others connected to the case, appearing as themselves through interviews, archival photographs, and recorded testimony. The film is directed by Lucrecia Martel, an Argentine filmmaker known internationally for her fiction features, here working in non-fiction.
Context & significance
Our Land was made as an international co-production, with companies based in Argentina, Denmark, Mexico, the United States, the Netherlands, and France attached to it. It is classified across documentary, crime, history, and thriller categories, which reflects its blend of legal chronicle and historical account. The film places its specific case alongside the longer record of land ownership and settlement in the region, presenting that background as historical context. Its structure moves between present-day courtroom material and older photographs and recordings, so viewers can follow both the immediate case and the events that preceded it across roughly a decade.
Where & how to watch
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