NUESTRA TIERRA / Argentinien 2025. Filmfestival Box Office Around The World 2026

The Schlüterhof will become a gathering place for film enthusiasts from all over the world—complete with summer drinks and snacks. The open-air festival presents six current feature films that are “box office hits” in their countries of origin but have not yet been shown on the big screen in Germany. Before the screenings, we invite you to themed spotlights to get you in the mood—with celebrity guests!

The Box Office Around the World festival presents six current feature films over two weekends in August—films that are audience favorites and box office hits in their countries of origin but have not yet been shown on the big screen in Germany.

Representatives from Berlin’s communities from Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, Vietnam, Brazil, and India selected the films together with curator Dorothee Wenner and developed an accompanying program: Before the open-air screenings, we’ll shine a thematic spotlight on each film—featuring a star-studded lineup.

NUESTRA TIERRA / Argentina 2025. . Box Office Around The World Film Festival 2026

Javier Chocobar’s killer was carrying a camera in addition to his gun when he killed members of the indigenous Chuschagasta community and seriously injured two other men in October 2009. The video was posted on YouTube—and, nine years later, shown in the courtroom. That’s how long the trial against the killers—a wealthy landowner and his accomplices, two former police officers—was delayed.

In her documentary, Lucrecia Martel takes a journey through time to the colonial roots of the crime and arrives in the present. Together with her co-writer María Alché, she embarked on years of meticulous research in the province of Tucumán in northwestern Argentina, 1,500 kilometers from Buenos Aires. The film documents the consequences of the murder on the community. Chocobar’s widow is often at the center of the story. The team films in the courtroom, studies case files and private photo albums, and in the background, they forge alliances with human rights organizations. Martel, who has achieved worldwide fame through her feature films, says of her first feature-length documentary: “Documentary film is a very difficult genre because it claims to have a closer connection to reality than feature films. It seeks the truth—something impossible when it comes to a country’s official historiography, which is a fiction of gigantic proportions.”

Martel confronts the “impossible” with cinematic mastery, offering a close look at the insidious mechanisms of power directed against the indigenous population. The result is a highly topical thriller that is currently causing a huge stir—and not just in Argentina.

Program

8:00 p.m.: Discussion with María Alché (screenwriter), Julieta Zarankin (curator), and Dorothee Wenner (moderator) (in English and Spanish)

9:00 p.m.: Film screening

Participants

María Alché is an Argentine screenwriter, director, and actress. Her feature film debut, *Familia sumergida* (2018), premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and won, among other awards, the Ingmar Bergman Prize for Best Debut at the Göteborg Film Festival and the Horizontes Latinos Prize at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Her second film, *Puan* (2023, co-directed with Benjamín Naishtat), won the Best Screenplay Award and the Silver Shell for Best Actor in the international competition at San Sebastián; it was a box-office hit in Argentina, Spain, and France, and represented Argentina in 2024 at “Box Office Around the World” at the Humboldt Forum.
She is the co-writer of the screenplay for *Nuestra Tierra* (2025), directed by Lucrecia Martel and premiered at the 82nd Venice Film Festival. Alché and Martel have been collaborating for over twenty years, ever since Alché played the lead role in Martel’s *La niña santa* in 2004.

Julieta Zarankin was born in Buenos Aires and has lived in Berlin since 2009. After graduating from the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, she worked in various areas of film promotion, distribution, and production—including at festivals such as BAFICI and Mar del Plata, at production companies such as Black Forest Films and Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, as well as at distributors such as Santa Cine and Wolf Kino, where she was part of the founding team. In 2021, she joined the Berlinale Co-Production Market team, where she has been working ever since. In 2014, she founded INVASION, the first Argentine film and culture festival in Berlin, which she has been directing ever since. Together with Dorothee Wenner, she curates the Argentine film program for “Box Office Around the World” at the Humboldt Forum.

- 10 EUR / reduced rate 5 EUR
- Lucrecia Martel / Argentina 2025 / 122 min. / Documentary / Spanish with English subtitles
- Location: Schlüterhof
- Part of:Box Office Around the World