
A refugee finds his calling in caring for stray cats and shares his story from war-torn Ethiopia to the streets of Brooklyn.



From Academy Award® nominee Laura Checkoway comes her next short doc THE CAT MAN ESHETE. The extraordinary story of Eshete, who escaped Ethiopia’s civil war on foot as a young man and is now a devoted caretaker of a feral cat colony in Brooklyn. Eshete has become the heart of a close-knit community, despite living on the fringes. This intimate document is equally a portrait of community care with a supporting cast of New Yorkers who help care for the cats—and for each other.

