Nuestra Tierra
YEAR: 2025 • COUNTRY: ARGENTINA, USA, MEXICO • RUNNING TIME: 122 MIN • CATEGORY: DOCUMENTARY • LANGUAGE(S): SPANISH
Director
Lucrecia Martel
Cast
With the special participation of the Comunidad Indígena Chuschagasta
Screenwriter(s)
Lucrecia Martel, María Alché
Producer(s)
Benjamín Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, Matías Roveda, Joslyn Barnes, Julio Chavezmontes, Javier Leoz
Co-Producer(s)
Sandrine Dumas, Marie-Pierre Macia, Claire Gadea, Erik Glijnis, Leontine Petit, Katrin Pors, Mikkel Jersin
Executive Producer(s)
Lynda Weinman, Danny Glover, Susan Rockefeller, Tony Tabatznik, Maxyne Franklin, Brenda Coughlin, Marco Perego, Michael Cerenzie, Natalia Meta
Co-Executive Producer(s)
Charlotte Cook
Associate Producer(s)
Alejandro Musich, Regina Solórzano
Produced by
Rei Pictures, Louverture Films, Piano
In co-production with
Pio & Co, Lemming Film, Snowglobe
In association with
Just Films | Ford Foundation, LEAF Films, Programa Ibermedia, Fundación Ernesto Sábato, Primo Content, Talipot Studio
Synopsis
In October 2009, Javier Chocobar, a member of the indigenous Chuschagasta community in northwest Argentina’s Tucumán Province, tried to defend himself and his people from being forcibly evicted from their land by a local landowner and two former police officers. As a result, the 68-year-old Chocobar was shot and killed, and two other community members were wounded.
In her expansive and enlightening first feature documentary, Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel (Zama, 2017) takes a sweeping approach to this tragic true story, triangulating the murder trial of the three men, the lives of Chocobar and his fellow Chuschagasta people, and the centuries-old, colonialist legacy of land and property theft across Latin America. With a ravishing, at times vertiginous visual approach to filming the natural beauty of the contested land, Martel pays cinematic tribute to people whom others systematically tried to erase from history. (Synopsis courtesy of New York Film Festival).
Script & Assistant Director
Gabriela Uassouf
Cinematographer
Ernesto De Carvalho
Archival Research
Milena Acosta
Additional Cinematography
Federico Lastra
Editor(s)
Jerónimo Pérez Rioja, Miguel Schverdfinger
Sound Designer(s)
Guido Berenblum, Manuel De Andrés
Additional Sound Designer(s)
Javier Umpierrez
Mixer
Emmanuel Croset
Sound on Set
Raúl Locatelli, Victor Tendler, Fernando Gallucci
Composer
Alfonso Olguín
Color
Joel Sahuleka, Luisa Cavanagh
VFX
Stefan Beekhuijzen
Post Supervisor
Iair Michel Attias
Supported by
INCAA (Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales), EFICINE, DOC SOCIETY LANNAN FUND, JUST FILMS | FORD FOUNDATION, CNC | AIDE AUX CINÉMAS DU MONDE | INSTITUT FRANÇAIS, LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL – PARDO AWARD 2020 THE FILMS AFTER TOMORROW, PROGRAMA IBERMEDIA, TORINOFILMLAB | CREATIVE EUROPE – MEDIA PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, NFF+HBF: NETHERLANDS FILM FUND – HUBERT BALS FUND, FONDATION CARTIER POUR L’ART CONTEMPORAINE, FIELD OF VISION, MECENAZGO – PARTICIPACIÓN CULTURAL GCBA, SUNDANCE INSTITUTE DOCUMENTARY FILM PROGRAM WITH SUPPORT FROM A&E NETWORKS, BERTHA FOUNDATION, MOMA (THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART), SUNDANCE INSTITUTE DOCUMENTARY FILM PROGRAM WITH SUPPORT FROM OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS AND JUST FILMS | FORD FOUNDATION, INMAAT FOUNDATION, CINEREACH, INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS (ICA) – FRAMES OF REPRESENTATION, BANCOPPEL, MINISTERIO DE CULTURA DE LA NACIÓN, ENTE CULTURAL DE TUCUMAN