Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)

Several people seen from behind watch a procession moving through a rugged valley. A white rectangular structure is visible in the center of the distant group.

In October 2009, Javier Chocobar, a member of the indigenous Chuchagasta 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, The Headless Woman) takes a sweeping approach to this tragic true story, triangulating the murder trial of the three men, the lives of Chocobar and his fellow Chuchagasta 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.

Free admission! Sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies as part of Cine Con Cultura 2026, Ithaca's annual Latinx Heritage Month film festival.

In Spanish with English subtitles. Courtesy: Strand Releasing

Cine Con Cultura is organized by Cultura Ithaca! and Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County in collaboration with Ithaca College, Cornell Cinema, and the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell.

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