Strong Island (2017)

Wow, this is interesting to watch, because it is about a number of things all at the same time.  There is a lot to this story, which is unwrapped in a slow and deliberate manner, but you cannot shake the feeling that if the killer were black and the victim were white it would have gone differently.
The film's director is the brother of a black man who was murdered 20 years before.  He speaks directly to the camera about his brother's murder, and about the resultant shattering of his family. The camera is close to Ford's intense face, very close, almost blotting out the pitch-black background. The effect of this attention-getting choice (distinguishing it from the more straightforward presentation of the other interview subjects) is to immerse the viewer in the claustrophobia of grief, helpless anger and "unfinished business," experienced by the filmmaker. The film is both personal memoir and factual investigation into the sketchy circumstances under which his brother was murdered, seemingly in cold blood, by a white car mechanic. Formal in its style, it has an urgency underlying every scene. The story is not as cut and dry as it seems. It may be the case that a little bit of distance might have helped the film, might have moved the focus just a little further back to get a more complete picture. There are questions that circle around themselves, endlessly, providing no broader outlook. However, by the same token, it is that very lack of objectivity that makes the documentary the experience that it is. It is a very tough film to shake.