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The Apology

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

The Apology follows three former "comfort women" who were among the 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Seventy years after their imprisonment and after ...

Call Her Ganda

  • Feature Film
  • 2019

Feature Film

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case—an activist attorney (Virgie Suarez), a transgender journalist (Meredith Talusan) and Jennifer’s mother (Julita “Nanay” Laude)—galvanize ...

The Feeling of Being Watched

  • Feature Film
  • 2019

Feature Film

In the Chicago suburb where journalist Assia Boundaoui grew up, most residents in her Muslim immigrant neighborhood believe they are under surveillance. Assia investigates and uncovers FBI documents about "Operation Vulgar Betrayal," one of the largest pre-9/11 counterterrorism ...

The Silence of Others

  • Feature Film
  • 2019

Feature Film

The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco as they continue to seek justice four decades into democracy. Filmed over six years, the film follows the survivors organizing the groundbreaking ...

Grit

  • Feature Film
  • 2019

Feature Film

A multinational natural gas drilling company is believed to be responsible for the displacement of 60,000 people in an East Java village left submerged by a tsunami of mud. Fed up with the company's delayed cleanup, Dian, a politically ...

In The Absence

  • Short Film
  • 2020

Short Film

A South Korean community is torn apart by a ferry disaster which claimed the lives of hundreds of children. When government incompetence is revealed as the main cause, the victims’ families seek justice.

POV Season 35

Featuring diverse perspectives and representation on both sides of the camera — half directed by women and two-thirds from filmmakers of color, with a spotlight on filmmakers of Asian descent.

The Last Out

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Feature Film

Three Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to chase their dreams of playing in the United States. At the shadowy nexus of the migrant trail and pro sports, The Last Out chronicles their harrowing journey, from immigration ...

Delikado

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

Palawan is one of Asia's tourist hotspots. But for a small network of environmental crusaders struggling to protect its spectacular forests and seas, it is more akin to a battlefield. Delikado follows three land defenders as they try to stop ...

Love & Stuff

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Feature Film

“How do you live without your mother?” Filmmaker Judith Helfand asks this unbearable question twice: as a daughter caring for her terminally ill mother; as an “old new mom”, single parenting her much-longed-for adopted baby girl at 50+. With gallows ...

Faya Dayi

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

A hypnotic immersion in the world of Harar, Ethiopia, where khat, a euphoria-inducing plant, holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life, Faya Dayi captures moments in the lives of everyone from the harvesters of the crop to ...

President

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

The new leader of Zimbabwe's opposition party, MDC, Nelson Chamisa, is challenging the old guard, ZANU-PF, represented by the acting president, Emmerson Mnangagwa. The 2018 general election serves as the ultimate test for both the ruling party and for the ...

He's My Brother

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

Christine's brother Peter experiences his world through touch, smell, and taste. Now 30 years old, Peter's family is having trouble finding the proper care for his multiple disabilities. He's My Brother explores how the family works to assure him a ...

Winter's Yearning

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

In Maniitsoq, Greenland, the US aluminum giant Alcoa Corporation has been planning to build a smelting plant for years. Pictured against immense, isolating landscapes, the people await their plant and with it, the nation's possible first steps towards economic renewal ...

Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

At the foot of the majestic snow-capped Sierras, Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp, becomes the confluence for memories of Payahuunadü, the now-parched “land of flowing water.” Intergenerational women from Native American, Japanese American and rancher communities form an unexpected alliance ...

Wuhan Wuhan

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

Through the stories of frontline medical workers, patients, and ordinary citizens, Wuhan Wuhan provides a human face to the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the city where the mysterious virus was first discovered. How will they unite in ...

Accepted

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

Airing October 10
Accepted follows four high school students at T.M. Landry, a prep school in Louisiana known for its viral videos of seniors being accepted to the Ivy Leagues, and sending 100% of its graduates to college. But an explosive NY ...

Midwives

  • Feature Film
  • 2022
Airing November 21
Midwives chronicles two women who run a makeshift medical clinic in western Myanmar, a region torn apart by violent ethnic divisions. The owner is Buddhist and risks her safety daily to treat Muslim patients. The apprentice is part of the ...

Let the Little Light Shine

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

Airing December 12
National Teachers Academy (NTA) is considered a beacon for Black children: a top-ranked, high-performing elementary school in the fastest growing neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. As the neighborhood gentrifies, a wealthy parents’ group seeks to close NTA and replace it ...

I Didn't See You There

  • Feature Film
  • 2023
Airing January 9, 2023
When a circus tent goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into a meditative journey exploring the history of freakdom, vision, and (in)visibility. Shot from the director's physical perspective — mounted to his wheelchair or handheld —I ...

America ReFramed Season 10

Explore what's coming soon to America ReFramed's brand-new season.

La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered

  • Feature Film
  • 2022
On May 5th, 1991, people took to the streets of Washington D.C.’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood to protest the police shooting of a young Salvadoran man, Daniel Gomez. Through testimony, song, poetry, and street theater, La Manplesa: An Uprising ...

The Unafraid

  • Feature Film
  • 2019

Trailer

Banned from attending Georgia’s top five public universities and from paying in-state tuition at other public colleges in the state, DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students like Alejandro, Silvia, and Aldo unite through their activist work with an ...

We Like It Like That

  • Feature Film
  • 2016

Feature Film

Created by largely Puerto Rican, Cuban and African American youths living alongside each other in the 1960s, Boogaloo served as an authentic and vibrant cultural expression. We Like It Like That explores a pivotal moment in '60s music history when ...

Five Years North

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Trailer

Five Years North is the story of Luis and Judy. Luis is an undocumented 16-year-old Guatemalan boy who arrives alone in New York City from an ICE detention center with little support and many responsibilites. Luis has journeyed to the ...

Any Given Day

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

Filmmaker Margaret Byrne follows Angela, Dimitar and Daniel, three Chicagoans participating in a specialized court probation program, as they manage their respective mental illnesses while searching for stability in their families, friendships, jobs and housing. Byrne’s intimate observations of ...

For the Love of Rutland

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Feature Film

In 2016 the mayor of Rutland, VT, a predominantly white town struggling with income inequality, the opioid epidemic and political polarization, devised a plan to bring one hundred Syrian refugees to invigorate his community. What followed was a deluge of ...

Sapelo

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Feature Film

On the barrier island of Sapelo off the coast of Georgia, two brothers, JerMarkest and Johnathan, are growing up in the last remaining enclave of the Saltwater Geechee people. Their greatest joy is exploring the island like their adoptive mother ...

Daughter of a Lost Bird

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

Kendra, a Native adoptee, is a thriving woman who grew up in a loving, upper middle-class white family, and feels no significant loss with the absence of Indigenous culture or family in her life. And yet, as a Blackfeet/Salish ...

Any Given Day

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

Filmmaker Margaret Byrne follows Angela, Dimitar and Daniel, three Chicagoans participating in a specialized court probation program, as they manage their respective mental illnesses while searching for stability in their families, friendships, jobs and housing. Byrne’s intimate observations of ...

Chinatown Rising

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, a young San Francisco film student and Chinatown resident turned his lens onto his community. Fast forward 50 years, Harry Chuck's now archival material portrays a divided community's struggles ...

Geographies of Kinship

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

Geographies of Kinship weaves together the complex personal histories of four adult adoptees born in South Korea with the rise of the country’s global adoption program. Raised in foreign families, each adoptee sets out on a journey to return ...

Fannie Lou Hamer's America

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

“Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave?” With those words at the 1964 Democratic Convention, Fannie Lou Hamer changed the course of Civil Rights forever. By working in the cotton fields of Mississippi ...

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POV Announces 6th Annual 'Our America: Documentaries in Dialogue' POV Wins A News & Documentary Emmy Award for David Osit’s Mayor ‘POV Shorts’ the Bold, Emmy Award-Winning, Short-Form Documentary Series Marks its 5th Year Anniversary With Eleven Films Centered on Connectedness, Activism, Accessibility, Intergenerational Stories and Hometown Pride
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