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For over the past sixty-five years, Joralf Gjerstad, a renowned healer, has had approximately fifty-thousand people travel to the small village of Snåsa in Norway to see him, hoping their ailments and illnesses can be cured through the touch of his hands. Exhibiting a genuine compassion to help strangers through his self-labelled gift from God, Gjerstad seeks no financial aid or advantage from his work, hoping those who meet him will walk away with a greater belief in themselves. Director Margreth Olin interviews a range of individuals who have met Gjerstad, each with their own sickness or injury, hoping to find a shared spiritual understanding of Gjerstad’s abilities. With an observant fly-on-the-wall lens capturing what seems to be miracle-making in real-time, and acting as a personal portrait of Joralf Gjerstad’s own understanding in his abilities and philosophies, Olin pursues a hidden truth of how upholding personal faith and demonstrating goodness inevitably connects us all through times of suffering and hardship. TM

Ages 18+ | Adult themes