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La Casa de Mama Icha

Season 34 Episode 8 | 1hr 22m 57s

Decades earlier, Mama Icha moved to the United States to help her daughter with the care of her grandchildren. However, she never lost sight of her hometown of Mompox, spending years sending money to build her dream house there. Now, at the end of her life, Mama Icha boards a plane and flies back to Colombia where she finds joy and heartbreak in her return to the place her heart never left.

Aired: 10/17/21 | Expires: 10/18/24
Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, the Open Society Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding comes from Nancy Blachman and David desJardins, Bertha Foundation, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust, Park Foundation, Sage Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Chris and Nancy Plaut, Abby Pucker, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee and public television viewers. POV is presented by a consortium of public television stations, including KQED San Francisco, WGBH Boston and THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG.
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Behind the Lens interview with directors Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan of Made In Ethiopia.
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Behind the Lens interview with the director of Igualada: Refusing to Know Your Place.
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Behind the Lens interview with Break the Game director Jane Wagner.
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Trailer of Jane Wagner's documentary Break the Game.
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Jeff Dupre remembers the first openly gay man to appear on the cover of a national publication.
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Behind the Lens interview with UNION directors Stephen Maing and Brett Story.
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Trailer of UNION by directors Stephen Maing and Brett Story.
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