The touching Turkish film Kedi, about which I wrote a few days ago, has just been named among the Top Ten Nonfiction Films for 2017 by the popular American weekly magazine of record, Time. Hurrah not only for the makers of the film, and its cats and city, but for the exquisite taste of fellow blogger, the British touparmoi of the superlative blog, The Earl of Southampton’s Cat, who turned me on to Kedi, and me, a mere American.
The film meditates on the essence of those street cats who nonetheless have meaningful relationships with people and neighborhoods in Istanbul, but also on the relationships of the people and neighborhoods themselves. If you’ve ever been there, you will know what an especially beautiful and welcoming place it is, to humans as well as cats, and this film will make you yearn to return. If you’ve never been there, this movie will make you want to go.
You really have to see this movie!
Here are some of the street cats Sevket and I fed in our courtyard in 2006:
It was thrilling to develop individual relationships with them. I only wish that I could have stayed longer!
Let Us Live Like We Mean It! 
So good to see that Kedi’s getting the recognition it deserves. Documentaries can easily get lost in big markets, because they often appear only at Film Festivals or arthouse cinemas before release on DVD. Though I think Kedi might be available on Netflix now?
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I think it might be, at least in some areas.
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Thank you for suggesting this documentary. I gave it to my sister-in-law for Christmas. She had loved her trip to Istanbul and she is also a cat lover extraordinaire. We watched it together over the holidays and we loved it! It brought back so many cat memories for her, and I enjoyed hearing about those, too. 🙂
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I’m glad you both enjoyed it! ❤ toutparmoi, who writes the blog "The Earl of Southampton's Cat," https://toutparmoi.com/ is the person who suggested it to me! ❤
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