OUR DEMAND

Directed by Daniela Seggiaro

2023 / 80min

U.S. PREMIERE! In the early 1990s, as the Wichí community of northern Argentina fought for legal recognition of their ancestral territory, a young man named Miguel Ángel Lorenzo began filming what he knew best: everyday life. With a Hi8 camcorder in hand, he recorded walks through the forest, and shared routines, school gatherings, visits between neighbors, and moments when the outside world intruded – including the presence of a judge. Decades later, filmmaker Daniela Seggiaro returns to these images, assembling a film shaped by Indigenous perspectives and community memory. OUR DEMAND moves beyond the courtroom to reveal a worldview in which land is not property but a living relationship, where language, forest, and communal life are inseparable. The result is a quietly powerful testament to a struggle that is at once legal, cultural, and profoundly existential.