The BFI London Film Festival has awarded its top honor, the Best Film Award, to Landmarks, directed by Lucrecia Martel!

Landmarks is a documentary that reflects on the death and legacy of Javier Chocobar, an Indigenous activist and leader of the Chuschagasta community in Argentina’s Tucumán Province, who was murdered in 2009.

In a statement, the Official Competition jury commended Martel’s approach:
“Our jury has chosen Landmarks as the BFI London Film Festival’s Best Film for 2025. With deep empathy and extraordinary journalistic and cinematic rigor, the director Lucrecia Martel dives deep into the events surrounding the 2009 murder of the Chuschagasta leader Javier Chocobar, in Argentina’s Tucumán Province. In foregrounding present-day voices and neglected histories, Martel emerges with a portrait of — and for — 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 honor this singular achievement.”