Lucrecia Martel’s ‘Landmarks’ Wins Best Film at London Film Festival—with Subtitles Provided by SubTexto

In October, the London Film Festival (Also called BFI LFF, as it's organized by the British Film Institute) announced its winners, among which Lucrecia Martel's Landmarks snagged the Best Film Award. The kick? Both audiences and the jury saw it with my subtitles 😊.

The prize is presented to the most original, imaginative and creative motion picture in competition. In their words, Landmarks offers "a gripping chronicle on the legacy of colonialism."

The jury expressed, "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."

About the Landmarks Subtitling Process

The team reached out about creating the subtitles for the documentary early on in the process—it's not their first rodeo, so they understood the importance of teaming up with someone who could underpin the process from the get-go.

Throughout the course of many months, we worked together on finding the right words to express what the characters meant, with the added challenge that the subjects are from Tucumán, so they express themselves a little different from me (a born and raised porteña). Hence the power of coming together: with the help of the production team, we could really convey the ideas accurately.

This collaborative effort resulted in subtitles that honor both the emotional weight of the film and the specificity of its context. Landmarks is built on voices long unheard, and ensuring those voices were translated with clarity, respect, and intention was at the heart of the work. It was a privilege to contribute

behind the scenes to a project that is now receiving the international recognition it deserves. A testament to the power of stories that are told—and translated—with care.

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