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Landmark Film Honors Indigenous Land Rights Struggle
19 Oct
Summary
- Lucrecia Martel's documentary "Landmarks" wins top prize
- Kenyan film "One Woman One Bra" explores land ownership fight
- Migrant crisis in Europe chronicled in "The Travelers"
The 69th BFI London Film Festival (LFF) wrapped up on October 19th, 2025, with the U.K. premiere of Julia Jackman's star-studded "100 Nights of Hero." The festival's top awards were announced earlier, led by Lucrecia Martel's "Landmarks" (Nuestra Tierra), which won the best film award in the official competition.
Martel's first feature-length documentary, "Landmarks" is a searing chronicle of the systemic theft of native land in Argentina's Tucumán Province. The LFF jury praised the film for its "deep empathy and extraordinary journalistic and cinematic rigor" in foregrounding the voices and neglected histories of the Indigenous community.
In the LFF documentary competition, the Grierson Award went to David Bingong's "The Travelers," which focuses on the dangerous journey of a group of migrants from Cameroon to Europe. The Sutherland Award in the first feature competition was awarded to Vincho Nchogu's "One Woman One Bra," a humorous account of one woman's fight to keep her ancestral land.
