Storyline
Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris confronts one of the darkest chapters in recent American history: family separations. Based on NBC News Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff’s book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, Morris merges bombshell interviews with government officials and artful narrative vignettes tracing one migrant family’s plight. Together they show that the cruelty at the heart of this policy was its very purpose. Against this backdrop, audiences can begin to absorb the U.S. government’s role in developing and implementing policies that have kept over 1300 children without confirmed reunifications years later, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Cast & Crew
Gabriela Cartol
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LeadDiego Armando Lara Lagunes
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Jacob Soboroff
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What People Are Saying
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Errol Morris's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
“Every frame feels alive. Separated is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
