In 2017, young Mapuche Rafael Nahuel was killed by Argentina’s Naval Prefecture police in the Andean forest of Villa Mascardi, Patagonia. Drawing on court records, official documents and forensic archives, <em class="film">Forest up in the Mountain</em> situates this crime within a long history of systematic state violence against the Mapuche people. The film links this case to violence rooted in territorial colonisation following the so-called “Conquest of the Desert” in the late 19<sup>th</sup> century. By exposing the fractures of a judicial system that reproduces disproportionate power relations between the state and Indigenous peoples – and treats their territories as sites of industrial exploitation – this porous documentation brings to light processes of dislocation and identity rupture enacted through material and symbolic violence. Through a historical examination of territorial disputes, Sofía Bordenave’s film presents the forest as both witness and space of resistance, an echoing archive whose testimony extends beyond the courtroom and challenges official narratives.