Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris's 2024 documentary Separated explores the US government's family separation policy at the southern border during the first Trump administration, when an estimated 5,500 children were separated from their parents.
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Based on NBC News Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff's book Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, Morris's film combines interviews with former government officials, legal experts, and whistleblowers, with dramatised scenes of one migrant family's experience of being detained and split apart.
Interview subjects include the former Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, and Jonathan White, a public health official who risked his career to speak out.
Separated is screening as part of the Doc Edge film festival.
