The Cat Misses (Kedi Özledi)

Kedi Özledi (The Cat Misses) is a Turkish romantic comedy directed by Mustafa Şevki Doğan and released on 20 December 2013. It is the first film of a trilogy the director had long been working on. Mixing the emotional and the comic, it runs about 106 minutes. Avşar Film produced it, with Şükrü Avşar and Didem Dörter among the producers, and Warner Bros. distributed it.

The film is about Kıymet and Kadir, who love each other deeply but have problems in their relationship. Their effort to mend it unfolds through a cat that comes into their lives. Algı Eke plays Kıymet and İlker Ayrık Kadir. The cast also includes Selim Erdoğan (Mete), Burcu Biricik (Lale), Açelya Elmas (Ebru), Erkan Sever (Erkan), Oya Aydoğan (Meloş) and Soydan Soydaş (Boğaç), while co-writer Baykut Badem appears as the gas-cylinder man Güray.

The script is by Baykut Badem and Filiz Ekinci. The music is by Pinhani; the cinematographers are Berkan Öztrak and Soykan Pusat, the art director Şakir Demirpehlivan and the editor Sedat Karadeniz.