POV Acquires After Sherman and Murders That Matter

Two Documentaries Examine Race as Central to Identity and Connectivity for Many Black Americans

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On the Divide

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Feature Film

On The Divide follows the story of three Latinx people living in McAllen, Texas who, despite their views, are connected by the most unexpected of places: the last reproductive health clinic on the U.S./Mexico border. As threats to ...

And She Could Be Next

  • Feature Film
  • 2020

Feature Film

And She Could Be Next follows a defiant movement led by women of color as they fight for a truly reflective democracy and transform politics from the ground up. A co-production of POV and ITVS. A co-presentation of Black Public ...

306 Hollywood

  • Feature Film
  • 2019

Trailer

306 Hollywood is a magical realist documentary of two siblings who undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house. They embark on a journey from her home in New Jersey to ancient Rome, from fashion to physics, in search ...

Standing Above the Clouds

  • Short Film
  • 2021

Short Film

Native Hawaiian mother-daughter activists stand to protect their sacred mountain Mauna Kea from the building of the world’s largest telescope.

116 Cameras

  • Short Film
  • 2019

Short Film

As the Holocaust survivor community ages, the USC Shoah Foundation has embarked on an ambitious new project to transform survivors into 3D digital projections. 116 Cameras follows Eva Schloss, a survivor of Auschwitz and stepsister of Anne Frank, through her ...

Finding Kukan

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Trailer

Filmmaker Robin Lung documents her 7-year journey to uncover the efforts of Li Ling-Ai, the visionary but uncredited producer of Kukan. Lung discovers a damaged film print of Kukan, and pieces together the untold tale of the two renegades behind ...

Busy Inside

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Trailer

Through personal stories, Busy Inside delves deeply into Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) – formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. A respected therapist specializing in the condition's treatment, and her patients, confront past trauma and embrace their different personalities.

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Cinema Eye Honors

A co-curated collection by Cinema Eye Honors and POV

Not Going Quietly

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Feature Film

A rising star in progressive politics and new father, Ady Barkan’s career and family are upended when he is diagnosed with ALS at age 32. After a chance encounter with a powerful Senator on an airplane catapults him to ...

North By Current

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Feature Film

Filmmaker and artist Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown after a family tragedy. Weaving vignettes of VHS and Super 8 home movies with the present day, Madsen creates a poetic, nuanced portrait of a family navigating grief ...

QUEST

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Filmed with vérité intimacy for nearly a decade, QUEST is the moving portrait of a family from North Philadelphia. Beginning during the Obama presidency, Christopher "Quest" Rainey and his wife, Christine'a "Ma Quest," raise a family while nurturing a ...

Shut Up And Paint

  • Short Film
  • 2022

Short Film

Painter Titus Kaphar uses film as a medium while grappling with an insatiable art market seeking to silence his activism.

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.

Let the Little Light Shine

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

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 ...

Midwives

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Feature Film

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 ...

I Didn't See You There

  • Feature Film
  • 2023

Trailer

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 ...

An Act of Worship

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Feature Film

An Act of Worship explores the past 30 years of American history through the perspective of Muslims across the U.S. who have lived it. Observational footage of activists who came of age after 9/11 along with intimate testimonials ...

Accepted

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

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 ...

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 ...

America ReFramed Season 11

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

The Death of My Two Fathers

  • Feature Film
  • 2023

Trailer

After 20 years, Sol Guy finally watches his late father’s tapes and embarks on a personal journey of healing and reconciliation. At once a conversation between past and present and a letter to Sol's children, The Death Of My ...

Big Chief, Black Hawk

  • Feature Film
  • 2023

Trailer

Big Chief T is a high school senior and the youngest Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief in New Orleans. During COVID-19, he and the Black Hawk Hunters navigate the impacts of gentrification and systemic racism on their annual masking tradition ...

Fannie Lou Hamer's America

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Feature Film

“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 ...

Finding Kukan

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Trailer

Filmmaker Robin Lung documents her 7-year journey to uncover the efforts of Li Ling-Ai, the visionary but uncredited producer of Kukan. Lung discovers a damaged film print of Kukan, and pieces together the untold tale of the two renegades behind ...

Vision Portraits

  • Feature Film
  • 2020

Trailer

Acclaimed director Rodney Evans (Brother to Brother and The Happy Sad) takes viewers on a personal journey as he ponders how the deterioration of his vision will impact his life and work as a filmmaker. Interviewing blind and low vision ...

Where the Pavement Ends

  • Feature Film
  • 2020

Feature Film

Where The Pavement Ends transports viewers to Missouri towns Kinloch and Ferguson, examining the shared histories and deep racial divides affecting both. Through archival audio recordings, photographs and the recollections of residents from what was then all-Black Kinloch and the ...

The Area

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Trailer

The Area is the odyssey of a South Side Chicago neighborhood, where hundreds of Black American families are being expelled from their homes by a multi-billion-dollar freight company. The documentary film follows homeowner-turned-activist Deborah Payne, who vows to be "the ...

The Place That Makes Us

  • Feature Film
  • 2021

Trailer

A quintessential post-industrial American city is seen through the efforts of a new generation. This film is an inspiring portrait of Youngstown, Ohio, activists and leaders who have chosen not to abandon their hometown, but to stay, rebuild and make ...

For the Love of Rutland

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Trailer

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 ...

Jaddoland

  • Feature Film
  • 2020

Feature Film

Nadia Shihab’s Jaddoland is an intimate portrait of the work and process of the director’s visual artist mother Lahib Jaddo. Jaddoland offers viewers a fresh look at the immigrant story in America. Through an exploration of her mother ...

Kid Candidate

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Feature Film

A viral joke video catapults Hayden Pedigo – a 24-year-old artist and experimental musician in Amarillo, TX – into the spotlight and prompts him to make a surprise bid for city council. Kid Candidate follows Pedigo’s unorthodox political campaign while unpacking ...

La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered

  • Feature Film
  • 2022

Feature Film

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 ...

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POV Acquires After Sherman and Murders That Matter, Two Documentaries That Examine Race as Central to Identity and Connectivity for Many Black Americans POV Acquires Children of the Mist, the Arresting Documentary Delves Into the Tradition of Bride Kidnapping; Will Debut as Part of the POV’s 36th Season Launching Summer 2023 American Documentary Awarded $25,000 Grant for POV Engage From the National Endowment for the Arts
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