POV Shorts, the newest series from American Documentary, begins its 4th season with Where I’m From, an episodic compilation of three short films dedicated to exploring family roots and all of the different ways our histories shape us.

Minding the Gap is a coming-of-age saga of three skateboarding friends in their Rust Belt hometown. The film explores the gap between fathers and sons, between discipline and domestic abuse and ultimately that precarious chasm between childhood and becoming an adult.

Funny, tragic and compassionate, Mayor follows Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah as he and the citizens struggle to move forward with increasingly difficult by the Israeli occupation of his home.

When a ruling from the Dominican Republic Supreme Court strips citizenship from Dominicans of Haitian descent, over 200,000 are suddenly rendered without nationality, identity or homeland. Stateless follows families affected by the 2013 legislation.

Through shared-like glimpses of everyday life in post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico, Landfall is set against the backdrop of the protests that toppled the governor in 2019. The film offers a prismatic portrait of collective trauma and resistance as Puerto Ricans navigate dismantled social services and newcomers eager to profit.

In 2015, when the New Orleans City Council’s votes to remove four confederate monuments, death threats halt the removal. Neutral Ground tells the story to try and understand why a losing army from 1865 still holds so much political and imaginative power in contemporary America.

The personal cost of childcare, from the caregiver and the parents perspective.

Three stories looking at time encapsulated.

Softie follows political activist Boniface “Softie” Mwangi, a daring and audacious political activist, who decides to run for political office in Kenya after several years of fighting injustice in his country. But running a clean campaign against corrupt opponents becomes increasingly harder to combat with idealism alone.

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.