Back in 2010, Argentina’s most internationally renowned filmmaker Lucrecia Martel was browsing YouTube videos when she suddenly got the chills. He was shot to death by former police officer and mining entrepreneur Darío Amín in 2009, during a faceoff over ownership of the land where the Chuschagasta indigenous community lives. Two other men from the Chuschagasta community were also shot in the attack. Stories that are not being toldMartel’s outspokenly-political fifth film lands amid uncertainty for Argentina’s film industry, which has been particularly targeted by the current administration’s austerity policies. In Martel’s view, the weakening of local film production also risks erasing cultural representation.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald February 28, 2026 01:03 UTC