09/01/2026
“a documentary that implicitly honors these incredible doctors, but more acutely leverages their plight to address the numbing exasperation that such an atrocity is designed to instill among otherwise good people. It’s a documentary premised on the idea that nobody can stop the madness on their own, and how that’s all the more reason for everybody to resist it on their own terms.” -David Ehrlich, IndieWire
Poh Si Teng’s urgent and vital new documentary, American Doctor, opens this Friday, September 4 at The Grand Cinema.
AMERICAN DOCTOR is a vérité non-fiction film following three prominent physicians—Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian—friends who couldn’t be more different but are bound by their shared oath to save lives. Dr. Thaer Ahmad is measured and strategic, Dr. Mark Perlmutter is blunt and wears his heart on his sleeve, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is media-savvy and prolific. Filmed in unfolding, on-the-ground scenes, the story follows them from a Gazan hospital under siege, to the halls of Congress. Together they fight to keep a promise to their Palestinian colleagues and patients, to continue the struggle where it matters most: the United States.
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Get tickets: grandcinema.com/movie/american-doctor
