Vérité follows three physician friends—Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—from a besieged Gaza hospital to the halls of Congress, fighting to save lives.
Director: Poh Si Teng
Runtime: 90
Fest Year: 2026
Since October 2023, more than 1,700 healthcare workers have been killed in Gaza, and according to the WHO, 94 percent of the territory’s hospitals have been damaged or destroyed. Poh Si Teng’s vĂ©ritĂ© feature follows three American physicians, Dr. Thaer Ahmad, a Palestinian ER specialist from Chicago, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, a Jewish orthopedic surgeon from North Carolina, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon and the son of Pakistani immigrants—all volunteering at Gaza’s Nasser Medical Complex, one of the enclave’s few remaining hospitals. As they operate on severely wounded children, the building itself comes under fire. What binds them is not politics but the oath they took: Do no harm. The film makes devastatingly clear how far that oath now requires them to go, from the operating rooms of a besieged hospital to the halls of Congress, fighting to hold their own government accountable for the destruction they’ve witnessed firsthand. (YF)