This award-winning documentary offers a fascinating, diverting portrait of the famous stray cats who live on the sunny island of Malta. With its winning blend of candid interviews with local cat feeders, artists, and volunteers who look after the roaming felines, Cats is a journey through the colourful cat colonies, cat cafés, cat parks, and streets that have come to help define the island. More than just a film about cats, it’s also about the power of community and the peculiar strength found within the human-cat connection, as well as its curious effects on Maltese life and culture. Amusing, entertaining, and, yes, occasionally very, very cute, even the esteemed newspaper The Guardian calls this very likeable documentary “Soft, fuzzy, and purr-inducing…”
- Year2023
- Runtime69 minutes
- LanguageEnglish (with English Subtitles)
- CountryMalta
- PremiereCanadian
- GenreDocumentary
- SponsorPresented in partnership with the Embassy of the Republic of Malta
- AwardsList of Film Festivals the film was in & year: • Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2022 • Chagrin Falls Film Festival 2022 • Black Swan International Film Festival 2022 • Spotlight Documentary Film Festival 2022 • The NY Cat Film Festival 2022 • FAUNA TEPOZTLÁN ANIMAL FESTIVAL 2023 • Seoul International Eco Festival 2023 List the Awards won at any/all Festivals (exact Awards won) & year: Black Swan International Film Festival 2022 Critics Choice Award Spotlight Documentary Film Awards 2022 Gold Award FAUNA TEPOZTLÁN ANIMAL FESTIVAL 2023 Best Cat Film
- DirectorSarah Jayne Portelli
This award-winning documentary offers a fascinating, diverting portrait of the famous stray cats who live on the sunny island of Malta. With its winning blend of candid interviews with local cat feeders, artists, and volunteers who look after the roaming felines, Cats is a journey through the colourful cat colonies, cat cafés, cat parks, and streets that have come to help define the island. More than just a film about cats, it’s also about the power of community and the peculiar strength found within the human-cat connection, as well as its curious effects on Maltese life and culture. Amusing, entertaining, and, yes, occasionally very, very cute, even the esteemed newspaper The Guardian calls this very likeable documentary “Soft, fuzzy, and purr-inducing…”
- Year2023
- Runtime69 minutes
- LanguageEnglish (with English Subtitles)
- CountryMalta
- PremiereCanadian
- GenreDocumentary
- SponsorPresented in partnership with the Embassy of the Republic of Malta
- AwardsList of Film Festivals the film was in & year: • Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2022 • Chagrin Falls Film Festival 2022 • Black Swan International Film Festival 2022 • Spotlight Documentary Film Festival 2022 • The NY Cat Film Festival 2022 • FAUNA TEPOZTLÁN ANIMAL FESTIVAL 2023 • Seoul International Eco Festival 2023 List the Awards won at any/all Festivals (exact Awards won) & year: Black Swan International Film Festival 2022 Critics Choice Award Spotlight Documentary Film Awards 2022 Gold Award FAUNA TEPOZTLÁN ANIMAL FESTIVAL 2023 Best Cat Film
- DirectorSarah Jayne Portelli