Overview
- Director Enrico Casarosa presented finished scenes from Gatto to festival audiences, revealing the film’s Venice setting and character-driven heist story.
- The protagonist Nero is a black street cat voiced by Mark Ruffalo who is pressured by a feline crime boss, Rocco, voiced by Laurence Fishburne.
- A key sequence centers on Nero’s growing friendship with Maya, a young street musician, with music framed as the emotional heart of the film.
- Casarosa described the film’s look as the feeling of “walking into a painting,” using visible linework, brushstroke-like reflections, and hand-crafted 3D techniques to create a painterly style.
- The Annecy preview on June 26, 2026 also confirmed that animation is roughly 50 percent complete and included a surprise reveal of a new Pixar short titled Loving Dory.