Sundance Film Festival award-winner 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.
A Still Small Voice
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Louis & Anne Abrons Foundation
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A Still Small Voice
Q&A with Director Luke Lorentzen and healthcare professionals from White Plains Hospital
Tickets: $15 (members), $20 (nonmembers)
"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."
"Lorentzen’s camera sits quietly and nonjudgmentally so that his soft-spoken subjects can explore and express the grandest themes imaginable: what it means to live, and how we learn to die."
SPECIAL EVENTS
Q&A with director Luke Lorentzen and healthcare professionals from White Plains Hospital
Thursday, May. 7 2026, 7:00
- Luke Lorentzen is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. His most recent film, A Still Small Voice (2023), follows a chaplain completing a year-long hospital residency. The film won the U.S. Documentary Best Director Award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, was listed as one of the best ten films of the year by The New York Times, and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Luke’s previous film, Midnight Family (2019), was also shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature after winning over 35 awards from film festivals and organizations around the world, including a Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, Best Editing from the International Documentary Association, and the Golden Frog for Best Documentary from Camerimage. In 2024, the film was adapted into a 10-part fictionalized series for Apple TV+. Luke’s other work as a director and cinematographer includes the Netflix original series Last Chance U (2019), which won an Emmy for Outstanding Serialized Sports Documentary. With Kellen Quinn, Luke is a co-founder of the independent production company Hedgehog Films.
Tickets: $15 (members), $20 (nonmembers)
This film is part of the Community Matters: Health and Wellness Spotlight series.
This Series is Sponsored By:
With Support From:
The Thomas & Agnes Carvel Foundation
Louis & Anne Abrons Foundation
Theodore & Renee Weiler Foundation
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