On Thursday, December 5th, at the Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture, the Bozeman Doc Series continues with the Montana premiere of the critically-acclaimed new documentary, Separated. The film screens at 7pm.
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris’ deeply unsettling exposé reveals the machinations behind the U.S. Department of Justice’s “zero tolerance” program, resulting in the separation of sons and daughters from their mothers and fathers, with the goal of deterring immigrants from crossing the southern border.
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. The most heartbreaking of Morris’ films to date, Separated is a masterwork of moral clarity and emotional potency.
Errol Morris’ films have won many awards, including an Oscar for The Fog of War, the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for A Brief History of Time, the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for Standard Operating Procedure, and the Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America for The Thin Blue Line. Separated world-premiered at the Venice International Film Festival this summer to widespread critical acclaim.
“Blood-boiling… Separated finds Morris back in The Fog of War mode: angry, engaged and determined to expose an injustice too monumental to be ignored – despite so many Americans’ efforts to do just that.” – Variety
“Illuminating and riveting… A documentary giant turns his camera on an American shame in Separated.” – Los Angeles Times
“Scathing… As forensic and cool-headed as a deeply pissed-off documentary can get… Separated is not a partisan work, more a humanist one.” – Time Out
Doors open at 6:30pm. Tickets are available at the door or before the show online at www.bozemandocseries.org, where you can also buy Season Passes and 7-film punch cards, learn more about the series, and view trailers for upcoming films. The series will continue every other Thursday through April. •
