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These Wild Cats (2024)

These Wild Cats poster
Directed by
Steve Patry
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 17m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary profiles a hermit in rural Quebec who lives with many cats in a forest cabin. His calm everyday life is disrupted when one of the cats disappears.

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What happens

These Wild Cats (French: Des chats sauvages) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Steve Patry and released in 2024. The film profiles Martin, a hermit in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec who lives an isolated existence in a forest cabin with a large pack of cats, but whose life of predictable routine is upset when one of the cats goes missing. The film premiered at the Montreal International Documentary Festival in 2024, and went into commercial release in September 2025. The film was shortlisted for the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois in 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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