The festival jury highlighted the journalistic and cinematographic rigor of the director when recounting the events surrounding the murder of the Chuschagastan leader Javier Chocobar in the province of Tucumán, in 2009.
Our landthe film directed by the renowned Argentine filmmaker, Lucrecia Martelwon the award for best film in the official competition of the London Film Festival.
With his first feature-length documentary, Martel managed to combine artistic ambition and political commitment in a “bold and beautiful reflection” on the death and legacy of the indigenous activist Javier Chocobarhighlighted the festival jury in a statement.
“With deep empathy and extraordinary journalistic and cinematographic rigor, “Director Lucrecia Martel immerses herself in the events surrounding the murder, in 2009, of the Chuschagastano leader Javier Chocobar, in the province of Tucumán,” stated the official text.
The jury considered that the film “presents a portrait of—and for—an indigenous communityreturning to them part of the justice that the courts denied them for so many years.”
“In an edition with a very high level of competition, we are proud to recognize this unique work,” they added.
Furthermore, the London Film Festival (LFF) awarded the Sutherland Prize for best debut feature to the Kenyan director Vincho Nchogu for his documentary One woman, one bra (A woman, a bra), which tells of a woman’s fight to preserve her ancestral lands.
What Our Earth is about by Lucrecia Martel
The documentary tells how, in 2009, a man and two accomplices tried to evict members of the indigenous community of Chuschagasta, in northern Argentina. Armed and claiming ownership of the land, they murdered the community leader Javier Chocobar. The murder was caught on video and, despite protests, nine years passed before court proceedings were opened in 2018. Throughout that time, the killers remained free.
It is a co-production between Argentina, the United States, Mexico, France, the Netherlands and Denmark. And with a script by Lucrecia Martel with Maria Alche -who already worked together on The Holy Girl (2004)-.
Source: Ambito
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