A 12-minute classroom that haunts longer than most blockbusters.
Moving between classrooms – static interiors and roaring, raucous exteriors – Leagues explores the subject of academic exclusion in native communities. Named after an archaic unit of measurement, Martel's postcolonial film depicts how education, though a social tool, can also create division and discrimination.
Direction
Martel's suffocating framing traps you in the room.
Sound
Roaring exteriors vs static silence—sonic storytelling.
Director
Lucrecia Martel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Martel shot this in her native Salta province, using non-professional actors from local Wichí and Creole communities to ground the exclusion in lived specificity.
The 'league' as title refers to a colonial Spanish measurement—Martel literally weaponizes language itself as a tool of distance and division.
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