Encircle Films features ‘American Doctor’ Sept. 17, 19
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Encircle Films Presents “American Doctor” at the Art House Thursday, Sept. 17 at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 19, 4 p.m.
When three American doctors – Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian – enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
From Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Poh Si Teng, American Doctor follows three American physicians united by a single oath: to save lives.
After volunteering in besieged hospitals in Gaza, they return home determined to fight for the patients and colleagues they left behind, taking their battle from the front lines of war to the halls of Congress.
At the Sept. 17 showing, Dr. Mark Brauner from Doctors Against Genocide will be our audience discussion leader.
Dr. Mark Brauner, DO, FACEP, is an emergency physician, writer, bioethicist, and humanitarian physician whose work lives at the intersection of medicine, conscience, and human presence.
In 2025, Dr. Brauner served in Gaza at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, an experience that profoundly deepened his commitment to humanitarian medicine and public moral witness.
Since then, he has written and spoken widely about Gaza, famine, civilian suffering, medical neutrality, and the ethical obligations of physicians in the face of atrocity.
His advocacy is rooted not in ideology, but in a simple and uncompromising belief: that no human being should disappear from our circle of concern, and that medicine loses its soul when it becomes silent in the presence of mass suffering.
Cosponsored by PJPP and Doctors Against Genocide, American Doctor Sept. 17 and 19 will be the first screenings of Encircle Films’ Season 14.
For more information and tickets, see EugeneArtHouse.com and EncircleFilms.org.
Read by Robin Bloomgarden for KEPW Whole Community News.
