(2024, Messico, USA, 93')
Based on the book Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, which earned author Jacob Soboroff the Walter Cronkite Award in 2019, the documentary reconstructs the story of immigrant family separations, particularly between parents and children, enforced by the Trump administration in June 2018 at the U.S.-Mexico border. Morris exposes the cynical inhumanity perpetrated by the government in border facilities, also giving a voice to those who openly opposed the policy, challenging the American government to reunite parents and children.
Award-winning American director and documentarian Errol Morris (Hewlett, 1948) directed his most successful documentary, The Fog of War, in 2003, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2004. In 2008, the director won a Silver Bear in Berlin for Standard Operating Procedure, and in 2013 his documentary The Unknown Known was presented in competition at Venice. He returned to Venice in 2017 with the miniseries Wormwood and in 2018 with American Dharma.
