American Doctor
Poh Si Teng / United States, Palestine, Malaysia & Denmark / 2026 / International Premiere / 90 min
When three American doctors - Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian - enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
Three doctors with vastly different backgrounds and personalities meet in this intense story about the war in Gaza. The three doctors are united by their common desire to help and save lives. American-Pakistani Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is balanced and strategic, in contrast to American-Jewish Dr. Mark Perlmutter, who wears his heart on his sleeve and gets carried away during a live TV interview in which the two are participating.
The third party is American-Palestinian Dr. Thaer Ahmad, who, with his strategic understanding of the media, enters the debate about Gaza, but makes the medical profession and the need for help his message. In a race against time, impossible circumstances and their own homeland, director Poh Si Teng follows the three doctors’ struggles at a hospital in Gaza to save as many lives as possible. A struggle that also confronts the United States’ own role in the ongoing war that threatens the lives and future of the Palestinian people.
