A STILL SMALL VOICE
Director Luke Lorentzen’s A STILL SMALL VOICE follows Mati, a chaplain completing a year-long hospital residency, as she learns to provide spiritual care to people confronting profound life changes.
SHOWINGS
DEC 8 | FRI
5:00, 7:05, 9:10 p.m.
DEC 9 | SAT
12:50, 2:55, 5:00, 7:05, 9:10 p.m.
DEC 10 | SUN
5:00, 7:05 p.m.
DEC 11 | MON
5:00, 7:05 p.m.
DEC 12 | TUE
5:00, 7:05 p.m.
DEC 13 | WED
5:00, 7:05 p.m.
DEC 14 | THU
5:00, 7:05 p.m.
SYNOPSIS
In most US hospitals, alongside medical responses to illness and injury, lesser-known interventions take place every day. Responding to patients, family members and hospital staff who are experiencing spiritual and emotional distress, chaplains sit at bedsides, helping people to deepen connections with themselves, one another, and a world beyond this one.
A STILL SMALL VOICE follows Mati, a chaplain completing a year-long residency at New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital, as she learns to provide spiritual care to people confronting profound life changes. Following his acclaimed 2019 film MIDNIGHT FAMILY, director Luke Lorentzen digs into Mati’s spiritual work as an entry point to explore how we seek meaning in suffering, uncertainty, and grief.
Through Mati’s experiences with her patients, her struggle with professional burnout, and her own spiritual questioning, we gain new perspectives on how meaningful connection can be and how painful its absence is. As Mati and her patients take stock of their lives and experiences, space opens up to reflect on our own.
Director
Luke Lorentzen
Run Time
1 hour, 33 minutes
Released
Distributed by
Abramorama
HEARING AND VISUAL ASSISTANCE
Assisted Listening
Country
United States
SUBTITLES
None
NOT RATED
Many of the films shown at The Ross are not rated due to the prohibitive cost of acquiring a rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. Consequently, as many of these films contain graphic content, viewer discretion is advised.
REVIEWS
“The holy water is in a Styrofoam cup. Somewhere, a door slams. It’s human and messy — and it’s divine.”
“The lessons patients offer to Mati seem perhaps even more valuable than what she is able to offer to them, and the grace that flows off the screen is gutting.“
“Tough, penetrating and deeply moving.”