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Interview with Poh Si Teng & Dr. Thaer Ahmad on "American Doctor"

Interview with Poh Si Teng & Dr. Thaer Ahmad on "American Doctor"

Moviebreak Interviews und Festivals vor 7 Monaten

Das CPH:DOX 2026

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A timely, profoundly humane portrait of medicine at the frontlines
and the journalistic responsibility to force the public to
acknowledge the realities of war, Poh Si Teng’s intense documentary
arrives at Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX, just weeks after its celebrated
premiere at Sundance. American Doctor follows Dr. Mark Perlmutter,
Dr. Thaer Ahmad, and Dr. Feroze Sidwa, a medical collective with
different roots - one Jewish, one Palestinian, one Zoroastrian -
whose works stretches far beyond hospital walls. Together, they
fight to save live in Gaza and campaign for an end of the Genocide
against the Palestinians in spaces where care, conflict, and
conscience collide. On site in Copenhagen, both the
Malaysian-American director and journalist and Dr. Ahmad spoke in
an interview with Lidanoir about the making of the documentary, the
ethical weight of portraying human suffering, and the personal
stakes behind the story.