Landmarks marks a bold departure for Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel — her first documentary after decades of international acclaim for elliptical, sound-driven fiction (Zama; The Headless Woman). The film revisits the 2009 murder of Indigenous leader Javier Chocobar, who was shot while defending his ancestral land in northern Argentina. Caught on camera, the killing sparked national outrage; Martel situates it within a 500-year continuum of colonial violence and land dispossession.
With rare access to courtroom proceedings and collaborations with the Chuschagasta community, Martel constructs a searing indictment of the legal, historical, and territorial structures that define modern Argentina. Her layered approach, evocative sound design, temporal disjunction, and poetic restraint offer no easy narrative, only presence. Landmarks is not only an act of cinematic witnessing, but a haunting record of resistance from a people long threatened with erasure. The film solidifies Martel as one of the most compelling filmmakers of the 21st century, now turning her gaze to nonfiction with unflinching force.
Media Partner
Community Partner
Comunidad Chuschagasta
Argentina/USA/Mexico/
France/Netherlands/Denmark
2025
In Spanish with English subtitles
At International Village
At Fifth Avenue
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Danny Glover, Lynda Weinman, Susan Rockefeller, Tony Tabatznik, Maxyne Franklin, Brenda Coughlin, Marco Perego, Michael Cerenzie, Natalia Meta
Producer
Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, Matías Roveda, Joslyn Barnes, Julio Chavezmontes, Javier Leoz, Sandrine Dumas, Marie-Pierre Macia, Claire Gadéa, Leontine Petit, Erik Glijnis, Katrin Pors, Mikkel Jersin
Screenwriter
Lucrecia Martel, María Alché
Cinematography
Ernesto De Carvalho
Editor
Jerónimo Pérez Rioja, Miguel Schverdfinger
Original Music
Alfonso Olguín
Lucrecia Martel
Born in Salta, Argentina, Lucrecia Martel is a film director and screenwriter whose works have received international acclaim. Her films La Ciénaga (2001), The Holy Girl (2004), The Headless Woman (2008), and Zama (2017) are all considered major works of contemporary cinema, and retrospectives of her works have been presented at numerous cultural and academic institutions, including Harvard, MoMA, Lincoln Center, Cambridge, London’s Tate Museum, and Centre Pompidou in Paris. Landmarks (2025) is the first non-fiction work of her career.
Filmography: La ciénaga (2001); The Holy Girl (2004); The Headless Woman (2008); Zama (2017)
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