Kedi (Kedi: des chats et des hommes) [Sub: Eng]

"Kedi" is the cat's meow. Literally.

At 80 minutes, Torun's film feels a bit overlong, but it is as soft and warm as a kitten.

Humans can only draw so many lessons from cats.

Cats wander in and out of frame; humans speculate on whether the local cats are ambitious or arrogant; Turkish music spills onto the soundtrack; and there's more than one growler of a catfight.

Though pleasant to watch, Torun's feature debut feels more like a meandering montage than a structured narrative, and it could easily be half as long.

Those who don't especially like cats - or Istanbul, for that matter - might not get a lot out of Turkish director Ceyda Torun's love letter to the feline population of her native city. For everyone else, it should be an almost unadulterated pleasure.

I think cat lovers will get a big kick out of this; others will probably appreciate its humanistic tone more so than the animals.

A heart-warming, charming affair that cat lovers will fall head-over-heels for.

The city teems with felines and the humans who are momentarily or forever transformed through sweet encounters. Sadly, encroaching urbanisation is a threat. Kedi is bittersweet balm for the weary.

What could have easily been a standard fluff piece about pet lovers actually evolves into a thoughtful city symphony where animals and humans are always on equal footing.

Kedi ('cat' in Turkish) is much more than a cute film showing these felines' day-to-day lives.

A loving, gorgeously shot ode to the hundreds of thousands of cats living on the streets of Istanbul.