Stray Cat Film Center

Stray Cat Film Center Established in 2018, Stray Cat Film Center is Kansas City's only non-profit microcinema! Stray Cat Film Center is located in Kansas City, MO since August 2018.

We are a fantastically funky DIY micro-cinema that makes provocative cinema accessible to underserved audiences in the Kansas City area. The theater hosts screenings of lost, forgotten or disenfranchised films, host educational programs and acts a screening room for prospective filmmakers. We are a platform for volunteer programing and bringing your voice to the silver screen. Wanna get involved or become a member? Contact us to become a Stray Cat Member today!

😭😭😭😭THIS WEEK @ STRAY CAT: BLEAK WEEK IS FINALLY HERE! Come join us along w/ American Cinematheque for a week long journ...
06/07/2026

😭😭😭😭THIS WEEK @ STRAY CAT: BLEAK WEEK IS FINALLY HERE! Come join us along w/ American Cinematheque for a week long journey into cinema of despair with 16mm Classics, New French Extremity, animation, cold war paranoia, religious despair, and much much more!

Sun @ 7 // IKIRU (on "REEL" 16mm Film)
Mon @ 7 // TROUBLE EVERY DAY
Tues @ 7 // THE PLAGUE DOGS
Weds @ 7 // THE EAR
Thurs @ 7 // FIRST REFORMED
Fri @ 7 // TASTE OF CHERRY
Sat @ 2 // BLEAK WEEK SHORTS BLOCK
Sat @ 2 // THE STONE WEDDING (On "REEL" 16mm Film)
Special Bonus Bleakness: Sun @ 6:30 // THE JACKHAMMER MASSACRE (VHS!)

🎟/[email protected] or

LET THE EAR HEAR THIS.Weds, 6/10 Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair settles into thriller mode with Karel Kachyňa’s darkly sa...
06/04/2026

LET THE EAR HEAR THIS.

Weds, 6/10 Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair settles into thriller mode with Karel Kachyňa’s darkly satirical, long-suppressed political-noir THE EAR.

When Ludvík, a Communist party official, and his wife Anna return home from a party one evening, they discover that their house has been broken into and bugged—and that the state may be listening in on their every word. A number of Ludvík’s colleagues have already been terminated in an ongoing purge: could he be next?

Banned after completion by the Czechoslovakian government for over 20 years. THE EAR unfolds like THE CONVERSATION by way of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, THE EAR evokes the ever-present sense of dread that defines life under authoritarianism.

🎟/more @ straycatfilmcenter.com

Weds June 3rd, Stray Cat Film Center starts our 2 night run hosting the KC Premier of a new film that peers into the sec...
06/02/2026

Weds June 3rd, Stray Cat Film Center starts our 2 night run hosting the KC Premier of a new film that peers into the secret world of Disney World explorers and the crimes they, STOLEN KINGDOM.

Blending subculture, oral history, and true crime, STOLEN KINGDOM is a documentary that delves into the history of mischief, scandal, and theft at Walt Disney World, ultimately leading to the theft of an animatronic valued at nearly half a million dollars. Featuring interviews of key figures from the park’s underground exploration community, early pranks and antics unfold to more recent crimes, culminating in a true crime mystery. What begins as a tale of friendship and passion ends with one lingering question: Who STOLE BUZZY?

🚪/pre-show @ 6:30
📽 @ 7

🎟/more @ straycatfilmcenter.com or

🐁👮❄️THIS WEEK @ STRAY CAT: We explore the dark underbelly of Disney World, Uncover a prescient piece of American renegad...
06/01/2026

🐁👮❄️THIS WEEK @ STRAY CAT: We explore the dark underbelly of Disney World, Uncover a prescient piece of American renegade cinema, and we kick off BLEAK WEEK with a stone cold classic on "REEL" 16mm film!

Weds @ 7 // STOLEN KINGDOM (KC Premier!)
Thurs @ 7 // STOLEN KINGDOM (KC Premier)
Fri @ 7 // PUNISHMENT PARK
Sat @ 7 // PUNISHMENT PARK
Sun @ 7 // IKIRU (on 16mm!)

Coming up Next Week:

Mon @ 7 // TROUBLE EVERY DAY
Tues @ 7 // THE PLAGUE DOGS
Weds @ 7 // THE EAR
Thurs @ 7 // FIRST REFORMED
Fri @ 7 // TASTE OF CHERRY
Sat @ 2 // BLEAK WEEK SHORTS (Free!)
Sat @ 7 // THE STONE WEDDING ( 16mm!)
Sun @ 6:30 // THE JACKHAMMER MASSACRE (on VHS!)

🎟/more @ straycatfilmcenter.com

Next Friday and Saturday! Don't miss Punishment Park - the latest in our Doc Turtleneck series."At another time, the hon...
05/30/2026

Next Friday and Saturday! Don't miss Punishment Park - the latest in our Doc Turtleneck series.

"At another time, the honorable thing or the right thing to do might be to be a policeman or to be President. Right now, I think the honorable thing to do is to be a criminal."

1970 - using the McCarran Act, Nixon's administration is cracking down on subversive elements compromising American security. Rounding the dissidents into campus, the traitors, activists, and communist sympathizers are given a choice; long prison sentences or a race in a "punishment park". Successfully travel 50 miles across the desert while being hunted by police, and you'll be free to go.

Two camera crews from Europe receive permission to film a punishment park. While Group 638, is facing examination from the tribunal, Group 637 is already on their way. Who will survive?

JUNE AT STRAY CAT 😕🏳️‍🌈🖤💖🤠Somehow this month we’re getting BLEAKER and GAYER than ever before! We’re proud to be hosting...
05/30/2026

JUNE AT STRAY CAT 😕🏳️‍🌈🖤💖🤠

Somehow this month we’re getting BLEAKER and GAYER than ever before!

We’re proud to be hosting BLEAK WEAK during the second week of June and showing two 16mm prints, Ikiru on the 7th and The Stone Wedding on the 13th!

We’re also showing a free screening of Le****ns on TV presented by The Finding Aid, the classic q***r coded noir Gilda, 1980s punk rock London le****ns in Rebel D***s, and rodeo q***rs in National Anthem! Happy Pride Month!

Plus Zinesommar, Science on Screen, and so! much! more!

Grab a physical calendar at our box office and get tickets at the link in our bio.

📼 FREE! SATURDAY 5/30 @ 7pm 📼Kansas City's video dim sum is open again as ANDREW"S VIDEO VOID returns on a new day and a...
05/29/2026

📼 FREE! SATURDAY 5/30 @ 7pm 📼
Kansas City's video dim sum is open again as ANDREW"S VIDEO VOID returns on a new day and a whole new night exploring the outer reaches of audio visual delights!

THIS MONTH: Commissioned by the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2017, maverick Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin (MY WINNIPEG, THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD) along with found footage artists Glen & Evan Johnson unleashed THE GREEN FOG, a remake of VERTIGO: but instead of shooting something new, they scoured footage of every San Francisco movie EXCEPT Alfred’s Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece to build a found footage mixtape/remake! Everything is here: TV shows, horror, erotic thrillers, Chuck Norris, double Michael Douglas, and of course N*SYNC to create a funny, critical, truly one of kind cinema experience.

PLUS MORE: Iowan bowling commercials, waterbed safety, intense shoe sales, and a look at Taco Bell in India!

🚪/Piping Hot VHS Digitization @ 6:30
📽 @ 7pm

1000% FREE!/more @ straycatfilmcenter.com

IS THE HORROR POD CLASS ALL WET? They are this Thursday 5/28, as they continue our Year of Monsters by setting sail in s...
05/27/2026

IS THE HORROR POD CLASS ALL WET?

They are this Thursday 5/28, as they continue our Year of Monsters by setting sail in search of the beasts of the sea. What movie are we showing? That's a surprise, but we'll give you a few hints:

🎥 The director also dabbled in Universal monsters
✨ A surprisingly stacked cast
👾 Special effects by none other than Rob Bottin

What is it? The only way to know for sure is to come join us for a FREE screening, then stick around after the show as Orrin and Tyler go deep into sea monsters, complete with some unfathomable giveaways.

🚪/pre-show @ 6:30pm
📽 @ 7pm

🎟/more @ straycatfilmcenter.com

F**k school, cats rock.This Weds 5/27 @ 7pm, Eastern Bloc Party vol IV concludes its journey through Czech fantasy of th...
05/27/2026

F**k school, cats rock.

This Weds 5/27 @ 7pm, Eastern Bloc Party vol IV concludes its journey through Czech fantasy of the Prague Spring with another movie entering Stray Cat's we've-actually-played-this-more-than-once club, Vojtěch Jasný's political fairytale THE CASSANDRA CAT.

When a traveling circus and its magical feline mascot arrive in a provincial Czech town, and expose the virtues, vices and desires of its unruly inhabitants. The adults in charge seek to kidnap this cat, sparking a rebellion from the local children that love. that. fu***ng. cat.

Banned not long after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 for being regarded as an unacceptable and subversive critique of Communist society, THE CASSANDRA CAT stills lives as a colorful, surreal satire, and modern fairy tale.

🚪/pre-show @ 6:30
📽 @ 7

🎟/more @ straycatfilmcenter.com

🇨🇺😺🐙💚THIS WEEK @ STRAY CAT: A one of a kind documentary, cats wearing sunglasses, we dig into the sea for something stra...
05/25/2026

🇨🇺😺🐙💚THIS WEEK @ STRAY CAT: A one of a kind documentary, cats wearing sunglasses, we dig into the sea for something strange, and the return of Andrew's Video Void with a insane remake of a hollywood classic!

Tues @ 7 // CUBA AFTER CASTRO
Weds @ 7 // THE CASSANDRA CAT
Thurs @ 7 // THE YEAR OF MONSTERS: SEA CREATURES!
Sat @ 7 // ANDREW'S VIDEO VOID: THE GREEN FOG

🎟/more @ straycatfilmcenter.com

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