307. POV Shorts: The Calling
2020 - Season 33
Two films exploring creed and conviction.
306. POV Shorts: Comic Culture
2020 - Season 33
Slices of life from opposite sides of the world--where the everyday veers into comedy.
305. POV Shorts: Uniquely Euro
2020 - Season 33
Two quirky stories as distinctive as the countries from which they hail, Ukraine and Austria.
304. POV Shorts: Legacy
2020 - Season 33
Three stories looking at time encapsulated.
303. POV Shorts: In The Absence
2020 - Season 33
A South Korean community is torn apart by a ferry disaster which claimed the lives of hundreds of children. When government incompetence is revealed as the main cause, the victims' families seek justice.
302. POV Shorts: The Spectrum of Divide
2020 - Season 33
Two perspectives on how shared beliefs connect and divide.
301. POV Shorts: Cherish
2020 - Season 33
Three stories reflecting the many faces of love through memory, community and family.
13. The Mole Agent
2021 - Season 33
When a family grows concerned for their mother’s well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio to become a new resident and a mole inside the home. Sergio struggles to balance his assignment with his increasing involvement in the lives of other residents. Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival. A co-production of POV and ITVS. A co-presentation of Latino Public Broadcasting.
12. Softie
2020 - Season 33
After years of fighting injustice in Kenya, daring and audacious political activist Boniface “Softie” Mwangi decides to run for political office. But running a clean campaign against corrupt opponents with idealism as his only weapon proves challenging.
11. The Infiltrators
2020 - Season 33
A true story of two young immigrants who get purposefully arrested by Border Patrol, and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center. The film follows Marco and Viri, members of a group of radical Dreamers who are on a mission to stop deportations. And the best place to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention.
10. Our Time Machine
2020 - Season 33
When artist Maleonn realizes that his father suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, he creates “Papa’s Time Machine,” a magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets. Through the production of this play, the two men confront their mortality before time runs out and memories are lost forever.
9. In My Blood It Runs
2020 - Season 33
Ten-year-old Aboriginal Dujuan is a child-healer, a good hunter and speaks three languages.Yet Dujuan is ‘failing’ in school and facing increasing scrutiny from welfare and the police. As he travels perilously close to incarceration, his family fight to give him a strong Arrernte education alongside his western education. We walk with him as he grapples with these pressures and shares his truths.
8. Love Child
2020 - Season 33
With adultery punishable by death in Iran, a young couple make the fateful decision to flee the country with their son. Love Child follows the trio on their life-threatening journey to plead asylum and witnesses a mother’s heartbreaking fight to keep her family together and secure a future for her son.
7. Portraits And Dreams
2020 - Season 33
Portraits And Dreams revisits photographs created by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s and the place where their photos were made. Photographer and artist Wendy Ewald, who guided the students in making their visionary photographs, returns to Kentucky and learns how the lives and visions of her former students have changed. The film combines the new narratives and insights of the now adult students.
6. About Love
2020 - Season 33
Three generations of the Phadke family live together in their home in Mumbai. When the youngest daughter turns the camera towards her family, the personal becomes political as power structures within the family become visible, and eventually unravel. Cruel and comic in equal measure, the film examines the vagaries of affection across generations, tied together by something stranger than love.
5. Chez Jolie Coiffure
2020 - Season 33
In this captivating documentary filmed in a single tiny room, viewers step inside an underground hair salon with its charismatic proprietor, a Cameroonian immigrant named Sabine. Here, she and her employees style extensions and glue on lashes while watching soaps, dishing romantic advice, sharing rumors about government programs to legalize migrants, and talking about life back home in Cameroon.
4. Advocate
2020 - Season 33
Meet Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel, a political firebrand who is known by her opponents as "the devil's advocate" for her decades-long defense of Palestinians who have been accused of resisting the occupation, both violently and non-violently.
3. We Are the Radical Monarchs
2020 - Season 33
Meet the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color on the frontlines of social justice. Follow the group as they earn badges for completing units on such subjects as being an LGBTQ ally, preserving the environment and disability justice.
2. And She Could Be Next, Part 2
2020 - Season 33
The story of a defiant movement of women of color, transforming politics from the ground up by fighting for a truly reflective democracy. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm elections, the documentary features organizers and candidates (including Rashida Tlaib and Stacey Abrams) as they fight for a truly reflective government, asking whether democracy can be preserved—and made stronger—by those most marginalized
1. And She Could Be Next, Part 1
2020 - Season 33
The story of a defiant movement of women of color, transforming politics from the ground up by fighting for a truly reflective democracy. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm elections, the documentary features organizers and candidates (including Rashida Tlaib and Stacey Abrams) as they fight for a truly reflective government, asking whether democracy can be preserved—and made stronger—by those most marginalized.
