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Crocodile New Zealand-Nigeria, 2026, 100 min, color, documentary

In Nigeria, a group of teenagers have founded the collective: The Critics. With the most basic resources but an abundance of cinephile passion, they conjure handmade sci-fi spectacles: their own village becomes the set, the green screen is sewn together by hand, and the cast is recruited from neighbourhood children. Their films transform everyday life into wild dreamscapes – both an escape and a refuge. Creating images is, above all, play and pleasure for them, a window to the outside world and, at the same time, a door that genuinely opens outwards.

The Critics, Pietra Brettkelly

The Critics, Pietra Brettkelly

The Critics are a group of five – Raymond, Ronald and Richard Yusuff, Godwin and Victor Josiah. With no formal film education and since being young children, The Critics have developed a cinematic language rooted in imagination, experimentation, and community. They have made 54 short films from sci-fi to drama.

Pietra Brettkelly is a three times Oscar-selected, Sundance award-winning filmmaker, a member of AMPAS and an Arts Laureate of New Zealand. Pietra’s film premieres include Venice, Toronto and Tribeca.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

2022 Огун Ола: Войната наближава (Ogun Ola: War is Coming) 

2023 Можем само да се надяваме и да гадаем (One Can Only Hope and Wonder) 

2026 Крокодил (Crocodile) – док., съреж. / doc., co-dir.

 

2003 Красотата ще спаси света (Beauty Will Save the World) – док. / doc.

2015 Трептящата истина (A Flickering Truth) – док. / doc.

2026 Крокодил (Crocodile) – док., съреж. / doc., co-dir.

DIRECTOR
The Critics, Pietra Brettkelly
SCRIPT
Pietra Brettkelly
CAMERA
The Critics, Rachael Yusuff, Basile Carre-Agostini, David Wills Augustin
PRODUCERS
Pietra Brettkelly, The Critics
PRODUCTION
Pietra Brettkelly Films, Clan Yujo

Crocodile New Zealand-Nigeria, 2026, 100 min, color, documentary

PROGRAM

Cultural Center G8
20:30 h
Euro Cinema
19:15 h

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