New Jersey Stage 2017: Issue 9 | Page 116

Friday, October 13 @ Voorhees Hall #105 7:00pm First Bloom – Tingting Liu (Nanjing, Jiang Su Province, China) - This lovely ani- mated film tells the story of the budding freindship between a servant and a princess in ancient China. 2017; 5 min. Co-sponsored by the Rutgers University Confucius Institute! Kedi – Ceyda Torun(Istanbul, Turkey) - Hundreds of thousands of cats freely roam the streets of Istanbul, Turkey’s capital city. Wandering in and out of peo- ple’s lives, they are an essential part of the small neighborhoods that make up the daily life of the city. Claiming no owners, the cats of Istanbul live between two worlds, neither wild nor tame — and they bring joy and purpose to the care- takers who feed and look after them. Filmmaker Ceyda Torun presents endear- ing and intimate portraits of eight such cats and their caretakers. Closely fol- lowing along, as the cats nimbly navigate their way through Istanbul’s streets, this tender-hearted documentary presents the city through the eyes of its most free-spirited citizens: its felines. In Turkish, subtitled. 2017; 80 min. A Benefit Screening for the Scarlet Paws Animal Welfare Network (SPAWN)! Watch the trailer for Kedi NJ STAGE 2017 - Vol. 4 No. 9 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 116