“It’s a hard world for small things,” says Lillian Gish’s Rachel Cooper in The Night of the Hunter. Those words come to mind while watching Sally Aitken’s modestly informative and gently profound ...

This film by Sally Aitken follows a hummingbird rescue center and the woman who tends to its denizens with immense care. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

The hummingbirds of Every Little Thing are migrating from North America to Europe. Sally Aikten’s film about the extraordinary avian aerialists and a Los Angeles woman who tends to injured ...

“Every little thing gonna be all right,” Bob Marley advised us in “Three Little Birds,” and those lyrics provide a somewhat inapt title for a movie about lovable birds in which several of them die.

Documentarian Sally Aitken follows the ups and downs of life inside — and outside — a homespun Los Angeles-based hummingbird rescue. Terry calls them “the finders.” They call her at all hours. They ...

Four years ago, one of my favorite documentaries ever, Always Amber, began its festival run. The cis directors had set out to make a film about trans teens today by following a nonbinary kid named ...

Filmmaker Sally Aitken observes Terry Masear’s efforts to rehabilitate wounded hummingbirds, mixing stunning slow-motion footage of the creatures with insights into a caregiver with scars of her own.