‘Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)’ Trailer: Lucrecia Martel’s Provocative True Crime Documentary Puts Colonialism on Trial

“La Ciénaga,” “Zama,” and “The Headless Woman” filmmaker Lucrecia Martel turns from narrative storytelling to a documentary true crime portrait with the 2025 Venice Film Festival premiere “Our Land (Nuestra Tierra).” The long-in-the-works film centers on the 2009 murder of an Argentine Indigenous leader, and the legal battles among his community members that followed. Again, Martel pulls back the veil on her relationship to her country’s fraught colonial history, as with her fiction films. But if a documentary that mixes cell-phone footage that feels ripped out of a found-footage horror movie with procedural courtroom red tape and testimony isn’t true true crime, I don’t know what is.

With the movie opening this Spring, IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer and poster below.

More on the film courtesy of Strand Releasing: “Acclaimed Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel takes a sweeping approach to this tragic true story, triangulating the murder trial of three men, the lives of activist Chocobar and his fellow Chuchagasta people, and the centuries-old, colonialist legacy of land and property theft across Latin America.”

More from my review out of the 2025 Venice Film Festival: “There’s no spoiler in revealing that all three men implicated in the murder of Javier Chocobar were convicted by the trial’s end. None are in prison anymore, and few English-language news reports even exist about the murder today. Martel’s film ultimately makes Chocobar not a national symbol of Indigenous struggle but a real human, with people who loved him and whom he loved, regardless of that fact. And she makes the case that the Chuschas put up a hard-won, long-won, impossible battle that already began centuries before, coming at the material with a visceral filmmaking point of view that never overshadows the material. Even when it’s looking over it all like a drone in the sky about to fall down.”

“Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)” opens Friday, May 1 at New York City’s Film Forum. Los Angeles and other cities to follow.