SEPARATED

Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris incisively probes one of the darkest chapters in recent American history: family separations. Merging narrative vignettes of one migrant family’s plight with hard-hitting interviews with government officials, Morris paints a jaw-dropping picture of the state-sponsored crisis of cruelty, as hundreds of families remain separated today.  These vignettes, shot in Mexico with local crew and talent, reveal the underlying trauma of what migrants endure in pursuit of a better life. The resulting film—based on NBC News Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff’s 2020 book, “Separated: Inside an American Tragedy”—is a devastatingly moving and thoroughly researched examination of how several high-ranking government officials became willingly complicit in this tragic policy. With hundreds of families still separated today, it’s a story without an ending in sight.