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

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.