Crocodile Spectrum
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Canadian Premiere
Crocodile takes its name from Kaduna, the northern Nigerian city known as Crocodile City. It’s there that The Critics, a self-taught filmmaking collective, began making science fiction with one phone, handmade effects, and whatever their neighbourhood could supply. Co-directed by New Zealand filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly and The Critics themselves, the documentary follows the group as online experiments become a shared cinematic practice, drawing millions of views and even the attention of J.J. Abrams.
The documentary moves between the worlds The Critics invent and the lives they are trying to build. Their process is playful, but never small. Cinema becomes a way to work through grief, pressure, friendship, political awakening, and the desire to be seen beyond the limits placed around them. Winner of Best Film in Tribeca’s Viewpoints section after premiering at Berlinale, Crocodile is a coming-of-age portrait of young artists learning how to make images, community, and a future from the bare essentials.
Content Considerations: Gender or sexual discrimination, references to sexual abuse of minors, police violence
Best Film: Viewpoints, Tribeca 2026; Youth Jury Prize, Sheffield 2026; Best Arts Documentary, Warsaw 2026
Crocodile takes its name from Kaduna, the northern Nigerian city known as Crocodile City. It’s there that The Critics, a self-taught filmmaking collective, began making science fiction with one phone, handmade effects, and whatever their neighbourhood could supply. Co-directed by New Zealand filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly and The Critics themselves, the documentary follows the group as online experiments become a shared cinematic practice, drawing millions of views and even the attention of J.J. Abrams.
The documentary moves between the worlds The Critics invent and the lives they are trying to build. Their process is playful, but never small. Cinema becomes a way to work through grief, pressure, friendship, political awakening, and the desire to be seen beyond the limits placed around them. Winner of Best Film in Tribeca’s Viewpoints section after premiering at Berlinale, Crocodile is a coming-of-age portrait of young artists learning how to make images, community, and a future from the bare essentials.
Content Considerations: Gender or sexual discrimination, references to sexual abuse of minors, police violence
Best Film: Viewpoints, Tribeca 2026; Youth Jury Prize, Sheffield 2026; Best Arts Documentary, Warsaw 2026
