American Doctor
Three U.S. doctors—Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—strive to alleviate suffering in Gaza as war devastates its hospitals, confronting impossible choices, human suffering, and moral peril.
Description
In American Doctor, filmmaker Poh Si Teng follows three US physicians—Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—striving to alleviate suffering in Gaza as the war shatters its medical infrastructure. What begins as an urgent mission of care becomes a searing confrontation with the limits of neutrality. The doctors shoulder impossible choices, witnessing profound suffering while navigating the dangers of a war zone. The film grapples with reconciling professional duty with civic obligation, and private anguish with public responsibility. As the documentary moves between operating rooms and American corridors of power, what emerges is a taut, deeply human portrait of courage, conscience, and the high price of speaking out in the face of injustice—an urgent, unflinching work that demands to be seen. —Jessie Fairbanks
Biographies
Poh Si Teng makes her feature directorial debut with American Doctor. She is a Primetime Emmy winner for Patrice: The Movie (2024) and was a producer on the Oscar®-nominated live-action short St. Louis Superman (2019). She founded Tiny Boxer films, which produces documentary features and documentary and unscripted series. She was a journalist with the New York Times, a documentary commissioner at Al Jazeera English, an IDA grants director, and a creative executive at ABC/Disney.
