POV and Cinema Tropical are proud to present Bridging Worlds: Exploring Latin American and Latinx Stories Across Borders and Cultures, a co-curated collection featuring films from POV's impressive catalog of U.S. Latinx and Latin American cinema. Each week, we highlight a feature-length film with a short, exploring topics and issues such as aging, gender expression, immigration, and childhood. Through these thought-provoking and engaging stories, Bridging Worlds offers a glimpse into the dazzling artistry of Latin American and Latinx filmmakers while sparking insightful conversations about the experiences and challenges faced by these communities in both the U.S. and Latin America.
In celebration of Arab American Heritage Month, POV showcases critically acclaimed work with multifaceted and multilingual perspectives on the Arab American experience. Mayor portrays a Palestinian mayor's challenges in governing his city. 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. And A Broken House showcases Syrian architect Mohamad Hafez's miniatures of his beloved Damascus, offering a poignant take on displacement and loss.
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Explores gender expression in Mexico through the long-standing traditions of nonbinary Indigenous residents in Juchitán and the story of a teenager defying gender norms in a small coastal village.
Sheds valuable insight on America's flawed and inhuman immigration system through the story of a group of searchers volunteering to recover missing migrants in Arizona and two young immigrants on a mission to stop deportations from a shadowy detention center.
Offers contrasting perspectives on aging in Cuba and Colombia through the time-honored tradition of a cigar factory lectora and a Colombian elder migrant returning to her hometown to rebuild her dream house.
Portrays the difficulties of growing up in working-class Latinx immigrant communities in Northern California through the story of an eight-year-old resident documenting his community and a Mexican-American teenager forced to become the breadwinner when ICE raids threaten her family.
Natours Grocery: Filmmaker Nadine Natour turns her lens on her parents and her hometown, Appomattox, VA, to capture the story of her parents’ emigration from Palestine to the United States.
Coming Home: Palestinian-American dancers use traditional Dabka to connect with their homeland.
A Song for Daniel: A routine day of two nine-year-old boys — one living in Baghdad and the other, born and raised in New York City.
Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Perspective Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding comes from Nancy Blachman and David desJardins, Bertha Foundation, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust, Park Foundation, Sage Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Chris and Nancy Plaut, Abby Pucker, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee and public television viewers. POV is presented by a consortium of public television stations, including KQED San Francisco, WGBH Boston and THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG.