Country: Mexico, United States
Language: English

About the film:

World Premiere, Venice Film Festival. Errol Morris’ powerful new film delves into the Trump administration’s family separation crisis at the US-Mexico border. Based on the book, “Separated: Inside an American Tragedy” by NBC Political and National Correspondent, Jacob Soboroff.

“If the purpose was deterrence, why do it covertly?”

—Errol Morris, quoted in Ben Kenigsberg’s review for the New York Times

Images courtesy of Submarine Deluxe on behalf of MSNBC Films

About the filmmaker:

Errol Morris is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of their subjects, and the invention of the Interrotron. In 2003, The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His 1988 film The Thin Blue Line was selected in 2001 by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for its cultural significance.

MAJOR SUPPORT
Ohio Arts Council
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Campus Partners
National Endowment for the Arts

WITH HELP FROM
G&J Pepsi
WOSU Public Media