POV

Indie Films Series / 13 Seasons

Since 1988, POV has been the home for the world’s boldest contemporary filmmakers, celebrating intriguing personal stories that spark conversation and inspire action.

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1h 14m / TV-14

From This Day Forward: What to Wear to the Wedding

3m 56s

The family celebrates Sharon's wedding, for which Trisha decides to wear a tux. She discusses her discovery that her gender identity is fluid and her expression of femininity is flexible.

Marathon: Trailer

1m 56s

In Theo Rigby and Kate McLean's short film Marathon, an undocumented immigrant, Julio Sauce, competes in the New York City Marathon. This film is part of Immigrant Nation, an interactive storytelling project designed to collect immigrant narratives and share them with the world.

Kingdom of Shadows: Disappeared

2m 51s

Sister Consuelo discusses how militarized efforts to combat organized crime made the civilian population, and especially young people, vulnerable to being disappeared and tortured by the state with the excuse that they were criminals.

Hooligan Sparrow: The Life of an Activist

8m 37s

We learn about the hardships Ye Haiyan faces as an activist, from dealing with annoying journalists, to being arrested and detained indefinitely, to being harassed and evicted from her apartment.

All the Difference: Trailer

3m 9s

The largely invisible and often crushing struggles of young African-American men come vividly--and heroically--to life in All the Difference, which traces the paths of two teens from the South Side of Chicago who dream of graduating from college.

The Birth of Sake: Trailer

2m 46s

Go behind the scenes at Japan's Yoshida Brewery, where a brotherhood of artisans, ranging from 20 to 70, spend six months in nearly monastic isolation as they follow an age-old process to create saké, the nation's revered rice wine.

EXIT - Trailer

42s

EXIT: A Mobile Guide to the Post Apocalypse offers an escape from the doomsday thinking that is ruining our collective imaginations. An experience for smartphones composed of a suite of interconnected nonfiction stories, EXIT dares users to entertain a shocking possibility: that mankind may survive (and even thrive) beyond the challenges that await us in the future.

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