The Victors — Pablo Aparo [Locarno ’26 Review]

A frontier western without any ontologically stable sense of indigeneity or the homestead, Pablo Aparo’s The Victors is a film that resists the easy binaries and moral stances of post-colonialist discourse. It is an anti-colonialist film, emphatically so, but what’s compelling about it are the ways that it struggles to understand what colonialism means in a place that has known nothing but. The film’s subject is the Falkland-Malvinas conflict, a long-simmering feud between Argentina, who claim the islands as theirs...