The Grand Illusion

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.

Shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature Film for the 96th Academy Awards; Winner of the Directing Award: U.S. Documentary at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival; named one of the top five documentaries of 2023 by the National Board of Review.

Part of our Documentaries of Distinction film series.

“CRITIC’S PICK! One of the ten best movies of 2023. The nature of mercy, mortality and belief in the face of unimaginable pain makes this, somehow, a hopeful film, though it’s a hard-won hope.” Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times

“The kind nature of A Still Small Voice comes through in its matter-of-fact landscape of alien and uncaring observation rooms juxtaposed against the warm comforts the chaplains of Mount Sinai provide.” Andre Couture, Geek Vibes Nation

“Tough, penetrating and deeply moving.” Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter