22nd Calgary Underground Film Festival

April 17-27, 2025

13th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival

November 19-23, 2025

Are We Not Cats

United States, 2016: 78 minutes: Canadian Premiere
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Globe Cinema
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description

ARE WE NOT CATS is the strange but tender story of a man who, after losing his job, his girlfriend, and his apartment in a single day, attempts to restart his life, but is sidetracked when he meets a woman who shares his unorthodox habit – a proclivity for eating hair. A chronicle of the economic and emotional mishaps of the troubled and lonesome 20-something living in his truck, over the course of several hectic days. The romantic horror comedy with a focus on the grotesque is a feature-length expansion of writer/director/star Xander Robin’s 2013 short film of the same name.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Sitges Film Festival 2016
Stockholm International Film Festival 2016
Morbido Film Festival 2016

DIRECTOR'S BIO
Xander Robin is a writer, director and editor living in New York City. He received a BFA at the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts. His award-winning short films have played at dozens of film festivals worldwide. ARE WE NOT CATS is his debut feature film.

press for Are We Not Cats

"A genre defying indie sure to turn heads once it hits the festival circuit."
- ScreenAnarchy
"A distinctive New York indie that's promising and uncompromising in roughly equal measure."
- The Hollywood Reporter

details

Dark Comedy / Romance

18+ Licensed Screening
78 minutes

special guest

Director Xander Robin in attendance

credits

Director
Xander Robin

Executive Producer
Tom Davia

Producers
Theo Brooks
Xander Robin
Joshua Sobel

Screenwriter
Xander Robin

Cinematographer
Matt Clegg

Cast
Michael Patrick Nicholson
Chelsea LJ Lopez

Music
Burn One

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/arewenotcats

Official website:
http://www.arewenotcats.com

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