🐈2025 Cat Film Festival at Cinema 21🐈‍⬛

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# 2025 NY Cat Film Festival

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Coming Soon to Cinema 21

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90 mins | Rated Not Rated | Short Film

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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.

**1. Legacy Good Samaritan surface lot on the NE corner of NW 22nd & Kearney.**Paid Parking is available Mon. - Thur. from 5:30pm to 6am and all day on weekends beginning Fri at 5:30 pm until Monday at 6:00 am. Rates are $1.00 per hour with a $5 evening and weekend maximum. Credit and debit cards only. **2. Legacy Parking Structure 1 on the NW corner of NW 22nd & Kearney.**Paid Parking is available Mon. - Thur. from 5:30pm to 6am and all day on weekends beginning Fri at 5:30 pm until Monday at 6:00 am. Rates are $1.00 per hour with a $5 evening and weekend maximum. Credit and debit cards only. 3. Parking lot behind Papa Haydn (701 NW 23rd Avenue). Paid parking available 24 hours a day. $3.00 per hour with a $12 daily maximum. **4. Parking lot behind Pizzicato (505 NW 23rd Avenue).**Paid parking available 24 hours a day. $3.00 per hour with a $10 daily maximum. **5. Parking lot behind Joya Women's Clinic (2332 NW Irving Street).**Paid parking available 24 hours a day. $3.00 per hour with a $12 daily maximum.

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PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
The best way to get to get to Cinema 21 is on public transportation. The nearest MAX Lightrail stop is Providence Park. You can catch Trimet to Cinema 21 on bus lines #77 (21st Ave), #24 (19th Ave), #15 ( 23rd Ave), #20 (21st Ave & Burnside). You can take the Portland Street car to the 21st & Lovejoy stop to get to the theater. Visit Trimet's Trip Planner page for detailed instructions.