Kedi (2016)

Kedi is Turkish for cat, and you'll have probably already worked out for yourself what this documentary depicts. Thousands of cats have roamed the streets of Istanbul for years; we learn that many years ago cats were kept on ships to dispose of mice, and when ships docked in Istanbul, the cats would wander off the boats and miss their return trips. So they had to learn to adapt to the streets of Istanbul. Unlike Stray (2020), Kedi takes in a whole host of characters who have learned to love and care for some of these felines as they would do their own children, and it's heartwarming to see such affection spill out of these people, and to see the lengths they go to to cater for the cats. As a massive cat lover myself, I probably enjoyed this slightly more than Stray, but it's likely your alliances film wise will coincide with your alliances pet wise. Kedi is also highly amusing in a way that Stray is more sobering, showing us repeated footage of the local 'nutter', a female cat who runs parts of the town like she's Don Corleone. 7.4/10