Join us for the Premiere of the 9th Annual Cat Film Festival
Saturday, September 26th at 4 PM
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Village East by Angelika
181-189 2nd Ave. (SW corner of East 12th Street and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
10% of every ticket goes to the Animal Care Centers of NYC
These are the films you will see - and that the rest of the country will see when the Festival travels in 2027
These chosen films make for a totally delightful experience for humans of all ages.
[17 films, total run time: 105 minutes]
BODEGA CAT - Emmanuelle Martinez [3 MIN] An animated film about a bodega cat who protects the store from robbers at night.
THE POWER OF HIS PURR - Mutual Rescue [6 MIN] The story of Orion, an adventurous “cat dog” companion of a neo-natal intensive care nurse, who helped more than 500 at-risk kittens before adopting Orion, with whom she took an epic camping trip by bicycle from Canada to California.
CAT ON THE FLY - Kim Best [7 MIN] A fanciful film about a cat who was determined to fly.
CAT PEOPLE - Molly Dennis [16 MIN] A documentary about the network of volunteers in Athens looking after the street cats.
TAIPEI CAT DREAMS OF SICILY - D.K. Odessa [1 MIN] A cat’s rumination on other cats, other places.
CAT TASTROPHE - Morgan Seigler [3 MIN] An animated comedy about a cat with catastrophic antics inspiring a villainous inventor
TASHIRO - Asako Ushio [14 MIN] A documentary about Tashiro Island in Japan - also known as “Cat Island” - and the cat photographer who documents them.
PLAY WITH YOUR #@&! CAT - Julia Zuckerberg [30 SECONDS] A 3D animated film about what your cat thinks about your work at the computer
FERAL - Cathe Neukum [8 MIN] A documentary about the volunteer rescuers of Urban Cat League in NYC, who went in right after 9/11 to save the cats trapped in the neighborhood of the World Trade Center catastrophe.
LUNA - Valentine & Noetzel [2 MIN] A narrative film about how similar a man is to his cat, despite his protestations to his friends.
COSMICAT - Hyeonji Oh [4 MIN] An animated film showing how cats are actually clever little alien visitors.
“TALKING” CAT - Lusha Li [5 MIN] A documentary exploring the use of recorded word buttons to supposedly tell us what our cats are thinking.
CAT LADY: The Loneliness of Loving - Megan Liz Smith [14 MIN] A documentary exploring the exhaustion and loneliness of two cat rescuers whose lives are devoted to their colonies.
PARKING LOT & EARL - Matt Wildman [7 MIN] An animated film about a parking lot attendant who befriends a stray cat and becomes a resource to help people understand their own cats
CAT ANATOMY - Kim Best [4 MIN] Young school children divulge their hilarious nicknames for various parts of a cat.
IN GOOD TIMES AND TOUGH TIMES - Mutual Rescue [5 MIN] Two stray cats help a young teacher struggling with widowhood, inspiring her to write a children's book advocating pet adoption.
LIFE WITH OMAR AND UMA - Taag Ebert [4 MIN] A visual love letter to two kitties who made life wonderful for their owner in Minneapolis, struggling with the local challenges.
