‘Eureka by Lisandro Alonso’

In his latest and most ambitious work, Lisandro Alonso takes us on an elliptical journey that transcends time, space and genre.
From a lost soul in the Old West to police officer Alaina in contemporary South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation to an indigenous community in the Brazilian jungle in the 1970s, the film ingeniously connects the experiences of indigenous communities across the Americas and provokes metaphysical questions about colonial violence and influence.
Born in 1975 in Buenos Aires, Lisandro Alonso studied film and debuted with La Libertad at Cannes in 2001. His films Los Muertos (2004), Fantasma (2006), and Liverpool (2008) continued to receive acclaim. Jauja (2014), set in 19th century Denmark and Argentina and starring Viggo Mortensen, won the FIPRESCI award in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.