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MOVIE SCREENING - A STILL SMALL VOICE 

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Monday April 15th, 4-6 pm
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Sundance Film Festival 2023 Winner

Oscar-Shortlisted Documentary
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. 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.

Documentaire sélectionné aux Oscars
A STILL SMALL VOICE du réalisateur Luke Lorentzen suit Mati, une aumônière qui effectue une résidence d'un an dans un hôpital, alors qu'elle apprend à apporter un soutien spirituel à des personnes confrontées à de profonds changements dans leur vie. À travers les expériences de Mati avec ses patients, sa lutte contre l'épuisement professionnel et son propre questionnement spirituel, nous acquérons de nouvelles perspectives sur la valeur des liens et la douleur de leur absence.

Rotten Tomatoes   Rating: 93%

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.

• Genre: Documentary
• Original Language: English
• Director: Luke Lorentzen
• Producer: Luke Lorentzen, Kellen Quinn
• Release Date (Theaters): Nov 24, 2023  Limited
• Runtime: 1h 33m
• Distributor: Abramorama
• Production Co: Hedgehog Films, Spark Features, Jewish Story Partners

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Roger Ebert's Review page

Luke Lorentzen’s latest documentary, “A Still Small Voice,” is a tender portrait of an underseen group among a hospital’s many departments. Embedding his camera among the new residents in spiritual care at New York City’s Mt. Sinai Hospital, he follows Margaret “Mati” Engel, an aspiring hospital chaplain, as she spends time with patients and families facing heartbreaking circumstances: cancer patients awaiting their last breath, young parents coddling their lifeless newborn that will never grow old, a grieving daughter who’s lost her father. Over time, the camera captures the wear and tear of working on the emotional frontlines—something that has only gotten more difficult in the wake of the pandemic. Mati’s supervisor, David, also begins to experience fatigue and is unable to help Mati when she’s overwhelmed. Even chaplains aren’t infinite resources.
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IMDb Review  

​An aspiring hospital chaplain begins a yearlong residency in spiritual care, only to discover that to successfully tend to her patients, she must look deep within herself.  4 awards and 4 nominations
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The Hollywood Reporter

When Ziki Hexum’s score begins its woodwind lament over the closing credits of A Still Small Voice, it’s a kind of sigh, a letting go. For the preceding 90 minutes we’ve been invited into intimate, searching conversations and profound silences in the offices and inpatient rooms of a New York hospital. Within the discussions observed by filmmaker Luke Lorentzen, it’s hard to find a comment that isn’t packed with complex questions and spiritual longing as humans grapple with the intertwined journeys of body and soul. To read more go to webpage.

Sundance Film Festival

Mati is an aspiring chaplain on track to finish her yearlong residency in the spiritual care department at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She offers emotional support and spiritual care to patients wrestling with uncertainty, trauma, and grief. And she is doing so in 2020 and 2021, the two deadliest years in U.S. history. Finding balance becomes Mati’s daily fight, especially when, as her supervisor Rev. David puts it, "if your bandwidth is stretched, you don't have the room inwardly to metabolize the harder stuff that comes at you." It’s no surprise that Mati herself needs support and guidance, as does her supervisor, and his supervisor. What does care look like when everything around you seems broken?
Luke Lorentzen (Midnight Family, U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography, 2019 Sundance Film Festival) proves himself as a deeply respectful and empathetic documentarian. Thoughtfully inquisitive, Lorentzen is unafraid of intimacy, yet always careful not to trespass anyone’s boundaries with his camera. A Still Small Voice is a meditation on faith, loss, and professional sustainability, that successfully finds hope and meaning in seemingly hopeless situations. Go to Webpage

Wikipedia 

A Still Small Voice is a 2023 American documentary film directed by Luke Lorentzen. Produced by Hedgehog Films, the documentary 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. It had its world premiere on January 21, 2023, at 2023 Sundance Film Festival, where it won directing award for Luke Lorentzen.[1]
The film featured in the list of Top 5 Documentaries of 2023 of National Board of Review[2] and was also shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.[3][4] 
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