'Kedi,' the first feature-length film by Ceyda Torun, zeros in on a few of Istanbul’s hundreds of thousands of street cats, and their human friends.

“Kedi” means cat in Turkish. And while you don’t have to be crazy about cats to enjoy this documentary, it would certainly help. As that Turkish title indicates, “Kedi” is shot on the ...

In “Kedi” (Turkish for “cat”), director Ceyda Torun profiles seven kitties across the city — each one a fixture in the community — and the residents who have developed relationships ...

Kedi's stars, of course, are cats, and the film glides around Istanbul's back alleys, boho enclaves and rat-infested piers to show us the range of these characters.. These include Sari, a yellow ...

To make Kedi, Torun and a group of researchers roamed the city themselves, in search of characters.. Oscilloscope Laboratories “We had local field producers walking the streets asking people ...

“Kedi” opens February 10 in New York at the Metrograph and on February 17 in Los Angeles at the Royal, with a national expansion to follow. The film is now also available to stream on YouTube Red.

Trust me: “Kedi” will make you a believer. Torun, a Turkish-born filmmaker now based in the United States, and cinematographer Charlie Wuppermann, her partner in the production company Termite ...

Kedi’s center gradually reveals itself via side-by-side portraits of these distinctive felines and the people who love and care for them, sometimes in spite of themselves.

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Ceyda Torun’s “Kedi,” a documentary about the street cats of Istanbul. Oscilloscope will release the film theatrically in ...