This is equally an exposure to the character or Turkish people. An intimate look at how and why they behave the way they do. Done skillfully without cloying, artificial sentiment, it makes the viewer under-stand the everyday existence of both cats and people. Some would say this is for car fanciers, but to limit its appeal in that way would be a mistake. Truly worthwhile!

This amazing film shows how Cats connect us all. It shows how a community can be brought together by caring for and respecting animals. Absolute must see for anyone interested in Istanbul, cats or animals in general.

It does a fantastic job at displaying the city and its people. Wonderful cinematography. However, as a Turkish citizen, I have to admit that some of the comments from the people in this documentary are so shallow and so unusual for us that it is not realist anymore.

Such a good look at how we can treat "stray" animals. Work together and take care of them

Kedileri seviyorsanız ve İstanbul kedilerini merak ediyorsanız bu film tam da sizin için.

I watched this documentary just because few weeks ago I've seen "Stray", and even if I love cats and dogs equally, if you have to pick only one to watch, pick "Stray"! That one feels like a journey, and this like running in circle.

This is a documentary not so much about cats themselves but about how the citizens of Istanbul interact with them. The cats in question are street cats brought in when they escape from incoming maritime traffic, and the people interviewed take care of them not as personal house pets, but as visiting wild animals, they way people in other places view pigeons. The movie focusses on several people who take care of these cats, including one who found that taking care of them helped him recover from a nervous breakdown. It also shows Istanbul as a city with many small, old-fashioned buildings, but with modern ones inevitably being built and threatening the old ways. No mention is made of people who dislike the cats or anyone who keeps them as actual house pets instead of strays to be taken care of, but that would spoil the movie's atmosphere. Interesting look at a piece of another culture.

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, 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.

After seeing this documentary, i want to go to Istanbul and meets the felines.

Saw a bootleg version in Turkish. The cats were fascinating and so were their stories. One day I think I will buy the English language version.

Utterly delightful, and full of insight from interesting locals. I'm watching it again for the second time. It's a real keeper.

Had a lot of potential, but it boils down to just a bunch of interviews with random people in Istanbul who like/live with cats. If they had intermixed this with any historical or/and factual information about cats in the city it would have been an interesting movie. Otherwise it's just a bunch of nicely filmed anecdotes.

(a "no stray is a stray" film review by Timothy J. Verret) I see a lot of films that warm my heart. This happens because I tend to search out those films that I know will warm my heart. But I have to say that in all the searching for and watching warmhearted films, I have not seen anything, at least recently, that has warmed my heart quite as warm as KEDI (2017). KEDI, which means "cat" in Turkish, is a full-length documentary about the stray cats in Istanbul, Turkey, and how these same stray cats have touched the hearts of many of the human residents there. Of course, there are some residents who completely ignore these stray cats (sound familiar, America?), but for the ones who take notice of these stray cats, "no stray is a stray." This is because these cats have taught these residents what it means to survive in the face of much upheaval, what it means to love and be loved back, and what it means to "entertain angels." I cannot let that last one get away without this Bible verse that seems to fit perfectly into any cats' paws: "Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!" (Hebrew 13:2). This is EXACTLY what happens in KEDI, i.e., some human residents showed hospitality to strangers (stray cats) and, thus, entertained angels. They only realized this when these "strange angels" (stray cats) loved the human residents right back. And the stray cats didn't just love the residents who took notice of them right back….no, the stray cats also healed the residents. Take the man who had a nervous breakdown and it was only his feeding of many, many stray cats that he found his purpose in this world. Or the man who was dirt-poor and needed to fix his boat, and it was a stray cat who "pointed" him in the direction of a wallet where contained inside was the exact amount of money the man needed to fix his boat. Or the woman artist who found the isolation of such a profession just a little bit more tolerable by the company she kept of stray cats she allowed in her studio. This is what warmed my heart so much about KEDI: The capacity of animals to heal us! This has been my VERY EXACT story in my life, and it has become my "heart mission" to heal all animals as they heal me right back. I have to admit my cat, Conrad, and my dog, Blue, did not like KEDI as much as I did. That's because of all the "meowing" throughout the film, especially when the stray cats were being fed. Conrad looked around to make sure his territory of my home was not invaded by these cats Conrad deemed anything but angels. Blue turned his head from side to side from the meows, seemingly desiring to go into the 온라인카지노추천 and play with the stray cats. Maybe Blue was just tired of his only company he keeps being the very illusive Conrad. I guess Blue was looking for more cats to shun him as Conrad does for the most part. So, if you have dogs and cats, you may wish to exclude them from the watching of KEDI, unless you are looking for a great film to enjoy with your furry family. KEDI is a purrrfect family film. Forget Disney or any other film made in America that chooses to spin a "soft humanly yarn (cat pun intended)." KEDI is soft, sure, but it's really a film about how some human residents of Turkey made these stray cats part of their own family, and you can't get more of a family film than that! I want to address the many times I wrote "stray cats" in this review of KEDI. I didn't do this for any other reason than to broadcast with much desperation how we are to view stray animal as NOT a stray. No animal we would deem a stray is indeed a stray, for God has given us all animals to be OURS. I have said this time and time again that if we are to have dominion over God's Animals, then ALL animals are OUR animals. So, there should be no utterances like, "that stray cat needs to stay out of my garden" or "if that stray dog comes in my yard one more time, I'm gonna kill him!" No, you won't kill him because it's not YOUR yard and, no, the stray cat doesn't need to stay out of your garden because it's not YOUR garden. It's OUR yard and OUR garden. We share this world with animals, whether we want to or not, and hence all animals belong in this world as much as we belong in this world. If God didn't want this, God would not have put animals here in the first place. And God would NOT have said after He created animals, "and God saw that it was good" (Genesis 1:25). God seeing that animals are "good" means you don't get to chase the stray cat out of God's Garden and you don't get to kill the stray dog in God's Yard. I know some might say, "Timothy, enough with all this ‘animals are OURS!' They're NOT ours but if you want them, you can have them." Thank you for that compliment, because I do want them and I always will want them. And I could also say to these same some something very apropos to animals, "Bite me!" 😎 The last 4 or five minutes of KEDI, I cried like a kitten in his mama cat's arms. It was the most beautiful 4 or five minutes I have EVER spent watching a movie. As much of an animal lover as I am, I didn't expect to get hit quite as hard emotionally as I did, but I suppose it makes total sense a lover of animals would have that love hit him very hard. KEDI is completely captivating, hilarious and sad (BOTH, which is right up my "alley cat"), but the single purpose of KEDI is to show all of us how we are to view ALL stray animals as OURS, our friends and our confidants and, yes, how we are to entertain them as angels. SIDE NOTE: In keeping with the holiday season of giving and getting, I'm not one who likes to give or receive gifts unless they come from the heart. I particularly like to give or receive gifts that are created by hands and took some time to bring these gifts into existence. That said, if I know you well enough to give you a gift, don't be surprised if you look into your Christmas (if you celebrate Christmas) stocking and find from me, KEDI.

This is a very sweet movie that tells the stories of cats who live in Istanbul. Even though it's subtitled, you won't have any problem understanding it, because not much dialogue is needed. The scenery is beautiful and it's a very relaxing film. It can be a bit 'boring' due to lack of dialogue and so forth but I really enjoyed it. This would be a nice movie to add to my collection. Cat lovers will no doubt love this movie as well.

5/18/20: This is a great flick about beautiful street cats living the life. It's OK for the whole family, minus one night shot of a cat hunting a rat (you might want to fast forward through that when the green night shot appears). New York City has an enormous, disgusting rat problem, and would do well to consider a solution like this. As Jack Handy said "It's true that every time you hear a bell ring, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mousetrap snap, an angel gets set on fire."

So touching, thank you.

This movie about the cats of Istanbul is wonderful

If you have a heart, you'll appreciate this flick. If you like cats, you will love this flick. Like the fisherman said in this film, *People who dont like animals, dont like people.* Words of wisdom.

2018-11-14 A very warm movie. It's a god sent that they still have those kind of old-fashioned houses to have this kind of life style and living with the cats. I don't think we can find this in Taiwan, even in the country side.

A heartwarming documentary that captures the special connection between people and cats in a beautiful way. I loved every minute of this film. It's visually pleasant and brilliantly direct so that the viewer gets to see the world through a cat's eyes. I enjoyed the multiple stories told and how effortlessly they shift from one to the next. There's so much to love about this movie even if you're not a cat lover.