Director: Sally Aitken
Cast: Terry Masear
Every Little Thing is a 2025 Australian documentary directed by Sally Aitken, following Terry Masear, a hummingbird rehabilitator in Los Angeles, as she devotes her life to rescuing some of the world's smallest and most fragile birds — one tiny patient at a time.
What is Every Little Thing about?
In the sprawling urban landscape of Los Angeles, wildlife rehabilitator Terry Masear runs a one-woman sanctuary for injured hummingbirds. The film follows her across a single season as dozens of these thumb-sized creatures arrive at her door — each with a different wound, a different story. Some were struck by windows, others attacked by cats or weakened by pesticides. With extraordinary patience, Masear hand-feeds them every twenty minutes, around the clock, willing them back to flight. The documentary weaves together intimate close-ups of the birds' iridescent feathers and impossible hovering with the quiet emotional weight of Masear's commitment, asking what it means to care for something so small, so vulnerable, and so briefly ours.
Cast & crew
Director Sally Aitken brings a naturalist's eye to the material, letting the camera linger on the hummingbirds' physiognomy with the same reverence a wildlife photographer might apply to a great whale. Terry Masear, the film's sole human protagonist, is a published hummingbird expert whose decades of field knowledge give the documentary its scientific grounding and its emotional core.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora, Every Little Thing arrives at a moment when many are navigating the emotional weight of displacement, loss, and rebuilding — themes the film mirrors through the quiet act of nursing fragile creatures back to strength. The documentary's meditative pacing, its attention to beauty in small things, and its portrait of stubborn, unglamorous compassion resonate strongly with audiences who carry their own stories of resilience. The film is presented in English with no Persian dubbing or subtitles, so viewers comfortable with English will get the most from Masear's narration and the observational commentary.
Where & how to watch
Every Little Thing is available on K-Time. The film is in English with original audio — no Persian dubbing or Persian subtitles are available on this title. Watch on your browser, smart TV, or Android device with no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Cancel anytime.