Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel interrogates the 2009 murder of Javier Chocobar in her documentary “Our Land,” also titled “Landmarks” and, in its original Spanish, “Nuestra Tierra.” However, this is no ordinary investigation, for no question exists concerning Chocobar’s killer. Rather, Martel’s searing analysis places historical and contemporary expropriation of Indigenous Argentinian lands squarely at the center of her examination of events, past and present, leading up to and the catalyst for the killing. In essence, it foreshadows the tragedy to come, both the murder and its aftermath.
Director Martel followed Chocobar’s case for eight years, summarizing the area’s five hundred years of colonization, first as a colony of the Spanish empire and then subjected to exploitive intruders thereafter. The film builds inexorably to a coherent depiction of the infuriating, pervasive injustice to which the Indigenous Chuschagasta community has been and continues to be subjected. In Spanish with English subtitles, “Our Land” screens at Webster University’s Winifred Moore auditorium Friday, June 5, through Sunday, June 7, at 7:30 p.m. each of those evenings. For more information, you may visit the film series website at: Webster.edu/filmseries and you will find my full review at https://awfj.org/blog/2026/04/21/our-land-review-by-diane-carson/ Also, please subscribe to AWFJ.org (Alliance of Women Film Journalists) to read all of my reviews, festival coverage and other essays.