For Your Consideration: Águilas and A Broken House
POV is proud to present the year’s best and boldest documentaries on PBS. This season of our award-winning series POV Shorts features Águilas and A Broken House shortlisted in the 94th Academy Awards’® Documentary Awards - Short Subject. Watch these two powerful documentary awards contenders streaming now on pov.org, the PBS app, and the Academy Screening Room.
Along the scorching southern border in Arizona, only an estimated one out of every five missing migrants is ever found. Águilas,directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Maite Zubiaurre,is the story of one group of searchers – the Águilas del Desierto – who volunteer monthly to recover the missing.
Directors Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Maite Zubiaurre in conversation with documentary filmmaker Carl Deal
Syrian artist and architect Mohamad Hafez received a one-way ticket to the United States. Missing his homeland, he decided to create a stand-in. A Broken House, directed by Jimmy Goldblum, is a story of love, loss and creating pathways home.
Director Jimmy Goldbum in conversation with the subject of A Broken House, Mohamed Hafez, and RAICES
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