Lucrecia Martel: Un destino común

April 4–19, 2026

In conjunction with the acclaimed director’s residency at UC Berkeley, BAMPFA presents Lucrecia Martel: Un destino común, a retrospective of her films, including short films rarely seen on the big screen and her 2025 documentary, Our Land/Nuestra Tierra.

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  • Lucrecia Martel: Our Land/Nuestra Tierra, 2025

  • Lucrecia Martel: Zama, 2017

  • Lucrecia Martel: The Headless Woman, 2008

  • Lucrecia Martel: La ciénaga, 2001

  • Lucrecia Martel: The Holy Girl, 2004

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  • Selected
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  • Past
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  • Past
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Upcoming Films

  • La ciénaga

    Lucrecia Martel
    Argentina, 2001
    Saturday, April 4, 6:30 PM
    Introduced by Luis Madrigal

    Two extended families suffer through a heat wave in Martel’s award-winning portrayal of social inertia, class, and racial dynamics. “Every shot is dense with life, yet the movie is highly focused, a small masterpiece” (Meredith Brody, Chicago Reader).

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  • The Holy Girl

    Lucrecia Martel
    Argentina, 2004
    Thursday, April 9, 7 PM
    Introduced by Ramsey McGlazer

    An adolescent girl tries to save a man from sin in Lucrecia Martel’s hallucinatory look at religious devotion, sexual awakening, Lolita obsessions, and Catholic repressions in small-town Argentina. “A film that defies categorization, but I’m tempted to call it a miracle” (A. O. Scott, New York Times).

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  • Our Land/Nuestra Tierra

    Lucrecia Martel
    Argentina, United States, Mexico, France, Denmark, Netherlands, 2025
    Wednesday, April 15, 7 PM
    Lucrecia Martel, Ernesto de Carvalho, and Natalia Brizuela in Conversation

    “This film chronicles Argentina’s strategies to deny the Chuschagasta Community their territory. Drawing from the 2018 trial of Javier Chocobar’s assassins (2009), community conversations, and their photo archives, we reconstructed the community’s journey from the 17th century to today” (Lucrecia Martel).

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  • Canuto’s Transformation

    Ariel Kuaray Ortega, Ernesto de Carvalho
    Brazil, 2023
    Friday, April 17, 7 PM
    Ernesto de Carvalho, Lucrecia Martel, and Natalia Brizuela in Conversation

    A compelling hybrid documentary filmed in a Mbyá-Guaraní community on the border of Brazil and Argentina deals with the local story of a man who transformed into a jaguar.

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  • Selected Short Films of Lucrecia Martel

    Saturday, April 18, 4 PM
    Lucrecia Martel and Blanca Missé in Conversation

    An impressive array of Lucrecia Martel’s short films, including a commissioned work by the fashion house Miu Miu and her 2022 short Maid.

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  • The Headless Woman

    Lucrecia Martel
    Argentina, 2008
    Saturday, April 18, 7 PM

    A woman involved in a potentially tragic hit-and-run accident tries to ignore what happened in Lucrecia Martel’s disorienting, critically acclaimed suspense thriller. “If Hitchcock and Antonioni ever had an interest in class guilt, you’d have Martel” (Wesley Morris).

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  • Zama

    Lucrecia Martel
    Argentina, 2017
    Sunday, April 19, 7 PM

    Lucrecia Martel’s 2017 feature is a glimpse into the colonial abyss, adapted from a famed Argentine novel about a Spanish officer in a remote proto-Paraguayan outpost. “Perplexing and thrilling in equal measure” (Variety).

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Past Films