She spotted a small black item sticking out of the door as she walked to her daughter's room. The kitten's tiny paw reached underneath the door, begging to be saved. With the cat closely behind ...

“Your cat needs you to be watching and listening to what it tells you,” she says. “You have to figure out what the kitty is trying to say—and perhaps kitty is saying it’s angry or upset.

Its hero, a plucky black cat with round, expressive eyes, doesn’t speak a word of dialogue, and acts more or less like a domestic house cat, but under the Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis’s ...