SF DocFest 2025: 25 Cats from Qatar

Filmmaker expected to attend.

The nation of Qatar has a street cat population equal to the entire human population of the entire country – and it is growing fast! Disease is rampant, and local adoption is rare.

When a Midwestern cafe owner learns of the feral cat crisis in Doha, she and a network of multinational underground animal rescuers, create a brave and unsanctioned plan to fly 25 cats from Doha back to Wisconsin for adoption.

The filmmakers of Cat Daddies (SF DocFest 2022) follow this mission to transport out the 25 lucky felines and find homes for them abroad, all the while searching for a long-term solution to the crisis. The film offers a heartwarming, urgent look at strangers overcoming barriers to save lives, highlighting the global struggle for animal welfare.