KEDI 2016 77 minutes

It has been suggested that, unlike dogs, cats were never domesticated––they simply arrived and let humans adapt.

This seems to be true in Istanbul, where hundreds of thousands of stray cats co-exist alongside the city’s residents. In Kedi, documentary-filmmaker Ceyda Torun follows the lives of seven of those cats and the people who look after them. The resulting film is both wistful and meditative, offering a glimpse of the city’s essential humanity without ignoring Istanbul’s hard edges.

BE ADVISED: This film is not rated but shows the day-to-day perils the cats face navigating an urban environment. Some rough language, both human and feline.