American Doctor
When three American doctors – Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian – enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to make a difference. As the world watches a besieged and heavily bombed Gaza grapple with a humanitarian catastrophe, a collapsing healthcare system, and an unprecedented civilian death toll, American Doctor tells a deeply humanitarian story from which we must not look away.
The war in Gaza has strongly involved another country: the United States. As the attacks intensified in Gaza and medical expertise and capabilities were decimated, three American doctors felt a professional and moral obligation to act. We witness these three impressive individuals making the difficult but necessary triage decisions after an attack, caring for suffering children, and concerned for their own personal safety. Their stories reveal not only the human cost of war, but also the failure of the international community to protect civilians. Although they come from very different backgrounds and experiences, they are unified in their desire to ease suffering and raise their voices to demand action from their own government.
From Gaza hospitals to the halls of American power, director Poh Si Teng unflinchingly depicts a brutal reality and also shows a path forward to engage with humanity and collective action. Variety magazine called American Doctor ‘a necessary watch because it dares its audience not to look away, forcing the question not only of whose story is told, but whose deaths matter and make headlines’.
Poh Si Teng
Poh Si Teng is the producer of the Oscar-nominated St. Louis Superman and Emmy Award–winning executive producer of Patrice: The Movie. She is a former creative executive for ABC/Disney, documentary commissioner for Al Jazeera, IDA grants director, and New York Times journalist. She is the founder of Tiny Boxer Films, which produces non-fiction feature docs, and docu- and unscripted-series for the US and global majority markets. American Doctor marks her debut as a feature documentary director.
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