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A documentary about the murder of the Indigenous activist Javier Chocobar has taken the top prize at the London film festival, with the jury calling it \u201ca measure of the justice\u201d that has long been denied by the courts.<\/p>\n
The Argentine film-maker Lucrecia Martel\u2019s first documentary, Landmarks, won the best film award in the festival\u2019s official competition, it was announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The film examines issues of land ownership in Argentina and interrogates the role of this history in the 2009 murder of Chocobar, a Chuschagasta leader in Argentina\u2019s Tucum\u00e1n province who fought for Indigenous land rights.<\/p>\n
It focuses on the trial of three men that was held nine years after the murder. A candid video shows their fatal confrontation with Chocobar after they served eviction orders to him and hundreds of other Chuschagasta residents of a patch of ancestral land.<\/p>\n
The jury, which included the film producer Elizabeth Karlsen, praised Martel\u2019s \u201cdeep empathy and extraordinary journalistic and cinematic rigour\u201d.<\/p>\n
It added: \u201cIn foregrounding present-day voices and neglected histories, Martel emerges with a portrait of \u2013 and for \u2013 an Indigenous community, and grants them a measure of the justice the courts have long denied them. Within a remarkably strong competition, our jury is proud to honour this singular achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martel has been referred to as \u201carguably the most critically acclaimed auteur in Spanish-language art cinema outside Latin America\u201d. She has made a series of feature films, including La Ci\u00e9naga, the Holy Girl, The Headless Woman and Zama.<\/p>\n
In 2018, the director spoke to the Guardian about her fascination and shock at the arrogance and entitlement of Argentina\u2019s middle class \u2013 which she said was a direct result of Europeans arriving in the country. \u201cEven very educated people, they can\u2019t make the link. It\u2019s almost like looking at a wooden boat and not realising that it was made from trees. We see the wooden boat, but not the trees,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Other winners at this year\u2019s BFI London film festival included Vincho Nchogu\u2019s One Woman One Bra, a humorous account of one woman\u2019s fight to keep her ancestral land, which won the Sutherland award for first feature. The Sutherland jury said the film was \u201cat once funny, life-affirming, and deeply moving; its emotional journey stayed with us and will continue to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n
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