2025 NY Cat Film Festival

Join Us this President’s Day Holiday Weekend!
A collection of short films celebrating our feline companions!
KITTIES WELCOME TO ATTEND!

2025 NY Cat Film Festival
A collection of short films exploring the mystique of the fascinating felines who share our lives.

FILMS [90 minutes]

All the films are family-friendly and can be enjoyed by humans of all ages.

CATS EYE WITNESS NEWS [NY Cat Film Festival] by Michele Campbell
One episode of the charming Finny and Dazy, two talking cats who report on the news in New York City.

SO IT BEGAN - by Mutual Rescue
An uplifting documentary about Calvin Tucker, now famous on social media, whose life was transformed when he saved a stray kitten and has since saved hundreds of homeless and injured animals in his under-resourced community.

CAT ‘N THE BOX by Maya Ali Ezeddine
 A short animated film by a Lebanese student filmmaker at NYU about a cat who hears noises coming from a box and decides to investigate.
CAT ADVOCACY by Kim Best
A snidely funny imagined tale of a cat owner calling companies to complain that her cat doesn’t like their products.
A NEW HOME FOR AN OLD CAT  by Stephanie Cernelli
A chronicle of the adventures of Gotelind, an older feline, who got a second chance when adopted from a shelter.

LEONARDO’S LAST LUNCHEON by Joan Carol Gratz
Produced and directed by the 1992 Academy Award winner for Best Animated Short Film.

NINE LIVES by Jessie Davidson
A heartwarming documentary about a cat who has an entire neighborhood fooled, with several people believing they are the only ones who love and look after her.

TAIL OF THE TWILIGHT CAT by H Mahesh Haris
A touching documentary from Australia about the filmmaker’s own attempts to save an injured stray cat, and how it backfires.

CATS EYE WITNESS NEWS [Weather Report] by Michele Campbell
Finny and Dazey report on NYC weather challenges.

SCOTT by Grace R Strom
An animated day in the life of Scott the cat as he explores his backyard.

KITTY CRUSAIDE by Josh Carter
A biographical documentary about a passionate TNR cat rescuer, Dani, and the joys and heartbreak of her efforts.

CAROLINE: A LETTER TO MOM by Jesse Rosenstein
A happy birthday message to her mom from Caroline the cat.

MIKEY HAMMER, PURRIVATE EYE by Priscilla Dean
With a cast of actual cats from Purradise Ranch cat sanctuary who have the dialogue of a 1940’s film noir set in New Orleans, Mikey the private investigator is hire to find a stolen million-dollar cat collar.

KING OF CATS  by Kim Best
A documentary about an extraordinary man, Harold “Catman” Sims, turned his passion for cats into Catman2 shelter, a large open-plan cat rescue with low-cost spay/neuter, along with founding the American Museum of the House Cat.

THE BATTLE FOR SWAN LAKE by Joan Carol Gratz
A second film from animation pioneer Joan Gratz, this is a fun and funny mixed media story with cats, a dog and a fish head performing the classic ballet, Swan Lake.

LOVE ME by Aya Kneitner
An animated story of a lonely flower opening up to a kitty.

CATS EYE WITNESS NEWS [Best Friends Adoption Center} by Michele Campbell
Finny and Dazey celebrate cat adoption.

TRACE OF A CAT by Kim Best
Another “Kim Best Feline Film,” poetically posing the philosophical question of what our cats leave us with when they vacate a space they were in.

CAT KINGDOM by Martina Girlanda
An allegorical film of a young woman walking through an Italian hill town full of cats, each of which appears to magically transform into a human as she passes them by.