These Wild Cats (2024)
- Directed by
- Steve Patry
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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