The feline-focused documentary has won acclaim throughout the year. Ceyda Torun knew exactly what she wanted to be the subject of her first feature film: the street cats of Istanbul, her hometown. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Turkish cat documentary Kedi opened Friday in one New York theater, where it broke records and scored the top per-screen ...

'Kedi,' the first feature-length film by Ceyda Torun, zeros in on a few of Istanbul’s hundreds of thousands of street cats, and their human friends. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic ...

“Kedi” means cat in Turkish. And while you don’t have to be crazy about cats to enjoy this documentary, it would certainly help. As that Turkish title indicates, “Kedi” is shot on the streets of ...

After decades of dogs ruling popular culture — there are three canine stars on Hollywood's Walk of Fame — there's been a revolution. Thanks to a tsunami of cute viral videos, our feline comrades are ...

Cat people: This one's for you. If Grumpy Cat is the blockbuster franchise of cat videos, “Kedi” is the “Citizen Kane” of the genre. Though technically a sophisticated, artful documentary from Turkish ...

Like a cat that sneaks up stealthily behind you, no one saw the success of Kedi coming. “In the beginning all the festivals that we were applying to were turning us down,” recalls Ceyda Torun, ...

If cats can inspire YouTube videos and a Broadway musical, perhaps it’s time for the furry ones to have their own feature-length, live-action film. The title of Ceyda Torun’s debut documentary, “Kedi, ...

One of oldest surviving films made by Thomas Edison, dating from 1894, features two cats boxing in a miniature ring. Little could Edison have imagined back then that these 22 seconds of jittery, black ...

The Turkish cat documentary Kedi opened Friday in one New York theater, where it broke records and scored the top per-screen average of any movie in current release. With a 100% perfect (or is that ...

Early in “Kedi,” Ceyda Torun’s splendidly graceful and quietly magical documentary about the multifaceted feline population of Istanbul, a human inhabitant of the city notes: “Dogs think people are ...