Crocodile
Hibiscus tea standing in for blood, shots of bodies vanishing from the landscape, cars that fly. The set is a small village in Kaduna, Nigeria. A group of teenagers brimming with cinephile passion plunges into a sea of adventure, creating small films that swap out their present for a future world. The village’s lack of electricity conspires against the creation of their work but doesn’t give the group dramatic pause as their films start gaining international traction and support. More than a decade since it began, the collective known as The Critics is still making films. In Crocodile, director Pietra Brettkelly alongside the Critics themselves, weaves the cinematic alchemy of a coming-of-age story with the pulse of a band of young dreamers who thread naked police brutality and a broken system into handstitched sci-fi magic. —Ivonne Cotorruelo
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