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Lucrecia Martel Honored at Morelia as 'Nuestra Tierra' Makes Latin American Debut

Her festival remarks framed indigenous dispossession as a shared social crisis, urging cinema to confront impunity.

Overview

  • Martel received the Filmoteca de la UNAM silver medal at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia from Filmoteca director Hugo Villa.
  • The festival hosted the first Latin American screening of Nuestra tierra following its earlier bow in Venice.
  • She dedicated the showing to Javier Chocobar and to indigenous peoples, noting the project drew on roughly 15 years of research.
  • The documentary revisits Chocobar’s 2009 killing and the dispossession faced by the Chuschagasta community, featuring trial footage that shows convictions later followed by releases without serving sentences.
  • Martel unveiled a commemorative seat bearing her name in a Morelia cinema and urged younger filmmakers to reshape national narratives without relying on government patronage.