Overview
- Martel’s first documentary arrives in French cinemas after an Argentina release in early March, renewing attention to the 2009 killing of community leader Javier Chocobar and the trial held nine years later.
- The narrative centers on a cellphone video used as evidence that shows a landowner with two policemen confronting and expelling the Chuschagastas from land they say is theirs, a clash that ended in Chocobar’s death.
- The accused are landowner Darío Luis Amin, linked to a proposed mining project on the site, and former policemen Luis Humberto Gómez and José Valdivieso.
- The film weaves satellite and drone images with courtroom recordings, archives, and interviews to show how the case was argued in court and remembered by those who lived it.
- Reviews underline its examination of racism and dispossession in northern Argentina and its archival role in recording the community’s voices and faces long absent from official history.