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Every Little Thing

Directed by Sally Aitken
2024
Australia
93 minutes
All Ages
Exquisite hummingbirds fill the screen in Australian filmmaker Sally Aitken’s captivating story of a woman finding herself as she cares for the tiny birds. Selected Sundance and CPH:DOX.

Los Angeles resident Terry Masear nurses the many hummingbirds who fall foul of the environment. In nesting season, she takes hundreds of calls from people who’ve found traumatised mothers and chicks. Aitken (Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story, David Stratton: A Cinematic Life) follows Terry as she goes through her meticulous, time-consuming routine of feeding and grooming her fragile charges. In caring for hummingbirds, Terry finds a graceful way through her own traumas. The birds’ journey from injury to first flight is breathtakingly captured, revealing their oft-spunky personalities and resilient spirit. A compassionate and shimmering film to leave you humming.

Every Little Thing is not just a deeply affecting portrait – it offers a vision of compassion as a way of life
Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter
The thrill of watching extraordinary footage of these shimmering, iridescent, physics-defying birds never grows old
Wendy Ide, Screen International
Every Little Thing works its way toward a deeply satisfying conclusion, a big celebration of tiny things and the special person who has made it all possible
Kate Erbland, IndieWire

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Sat 22 Feb
12:30pm
BCC Cinemas Casuarina Darwin
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Year
2024
Classification
All Ages
Country
Australia
Language
In English
Director
Sally Aitken
Producer
Bettina Dalton, Oli Harbottle, Anna Godas
Screenwriter
Sally Aitken
Cinematographer
Nathan Barlow, Dan Freene, Ann Prum
Editor
Tania Nehme
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