Overview
- Lucrecia Martel debuts her first documentary with a close look at the 2009 killing of indigenous leader Javier Chocobar during a land dispute in Chuschagasta.
- Built around the 2018 murder trial, the film leans on courtroom audio and on-site re-creations to test competing accounts of the shooting.
- Grainy mobile phone video of the gunfire and sepia archives frame testimony from Chuschagasta community members.
- The defense claims they were trained by Argentine agents to use force and offers versions that shift blame onto local witnesses.
- When lawyers said cameras turned the hearing into a “circus,” the judge pushed back as Martel widens the focus to centuries of dispossession and paperwork-based land grabs.