Un Destino Común: A Conversation with Filmmaker Lucrecia Martel

Critically acclaimed filmmaker Lucrecia Martel (1966, Argentina) is considered one of the leading auteurs of Latin American cinema. Mostly self-taught, Martel started making animated short films in her early twenties before receiving international renown with her first feature La ciénaga (2001). It won numerous international awards including the Alfred Bauer Prize at Berlin. Her subsequent features further consolidated her reputation in world cinema. La niña santa (2004) and La mujer sin cabeza (2008) were both nominated for a Palme d’Or and Zama (2017) was chosen to represent Argentina in the Oscar and Goya Awards. Supported by the Hubert Bals Fund three times, HBF Development in 2019, NFF+HBF 2020 and Dutch Post-production Award 2021, her latest film Nuestra Tierra / Landmarks (2025), about colonial violence and the struggle of Indigenous communities for justice, had its premiere in the Venice Film Festival.