Cat Film Festival 2026

10% of the proceeds from Cat Film Fest will benefit Eden Animal Haven, a licensed no-kill rescue & sanctuary, providing a safe, cage-free haven for cats, with the goal of adopting them into loving homes.

The 8th Annual NY Cat Film Festival features a curated selection of 21 films from 14 countries and the United States, showcasing a diverse range of stories. The program has a total run time of 109 minutes and is suitable for audiences of all ages.

• CATS EYEWITNESS NEWS (Michele Campbell) (2 min) You think it's about a hurricane, but it's really about belly rubs!1
• CATNAP (Carrie Runyan) (3 min) An animated tale about a dog who won't let a kitty have her catnap - inspired by true events!1
• THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE (Cristina Ocana Gallegos) (2 min) A personal documentary about the subtle ways cats communicate and understand us - and how we reciprocate.1
• OH CATNADA! (Casper Flatman) (4 min) What would a feline-centric country look like, with its very own flag and anthem?!1
• PAWS and PURPOSE (Kim Best) (8 min) A documentary about a sanctuary that began saving goats but has become a loving final home for cats regardless of age or any issues.1
• CATS ON THINGS (Mary Matthews) (3 min) A fun and funny animated description of the havoc cats cause in our homes and why we love them anyway.1
• A HAND TO HOME (Shafeer Shamsudheen) (4 min) The filmmaker from Dubai created this tale of a rescued kitten told from her perspective, manually created with Adobe Firefly support.1
• ALFRED HITCHCAT PRESENTS "BANQUO'S CHAIR" (Priscilla Dean) (8 min) Another Purradise Ranch production with "talking cat actors," featuring Detective Purrlock Holmes investigating a murder in a mansion haunted by feline ghosts.1
• SCAREDY, THE CAT (Markie Hancock) ( (8 min) A documentary about a very shy feral cat adopted by people at the public tennis courts in a NYC park and how she came to trust a very few of them.1
• BASTET (Dvorzak, Majnaric & Dolonga) (2 min) Three Croatian friends - who love cats and are animators - made drawings by hand they colored on the computer, telling this story of three cats who rise to the clouds to meet Bastet, the ancient Egyptian goddess of cats.1
• LUCY (Adam Tindall) (10 min) A narrative film in which a woman comes to suspect that her new boyfriend is more interested in her cat than in her.1
• OLD PAWS 4: The Black Cat Market (Pittsburgh Film Academy students) (4 min) A cat cafe and a cat rescue team up to find loving homes for senior cats.1
• THE CAT HOUSE CHRONICLES (Jeanie Miller) (9 min) A documentary about a young cat who is adopted into a senior cat retirement home where he is a charming troublemaker.1
• 10TH LIFE (Ellie Kraemer) (4 min) An animated whimsical tale of a lost kitten and his mysterious new ally as they find their way home.1
• DAILY TABBY (Anaya Kay Dalton) (7 min) A mockumentary focused on an ESA at a college campus and her point of view about the students and their activities.1
• SHADOW (Erin Greenwell) (3 min) Artistic animation shows how her cat's death broke a woman's heart, but a stray in the neighborhood who befriended her made her wonder if her kitty who passed away sent Shadow to heal her?.1
• LOVE IS LOVE (Mutual Rescue) (6 min) A documentary in which a woman describes what her three tripawd cats taught her about love, the cycle of life and recovery.1
• WHEN LEFT IS RIGHT (Kim Best) (3 min) Being a "southpaw" comes with challenges that a kitten is determined to overcome, as he explains.1
• LOKI, UKRAINIAN CAT (Tania Bashkatova) (5 min) This is the story of a Ukrainian cat named Loki: his journey to escape the war in Ukraine and his adaptation in Ireland.1
• MY FAMILIAR (David Zayas, Elizabeth Bays) (2 min) Music video featuring Elizabeth Bays's love for her soulmate cat Screamy, who has since passed away.1
• CATS EYEWITNESS NEWS (Michele Campbell) (2 min) A feline news report that includes a flock of pigeons sitting shiva.