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Strong Island

Strong Island

★ 6,3 /10 (102 Votes)
2017 EN 107 min

Overview

Examining the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary interrogates murderous fear and racialized perception, and re-imagines the wreckage in catastrophe’s wake, challenging us to change.

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Release date

23/01/2017

Votes

102

Popularity

1.4

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Released

Language

EN

Runtime

107 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2026-09-25

⭐ 6

When African-American William Ford Jr. was murdered in New York's affluent Suffolk County in 1992, a grand jury declined to indict the nineteen year old man who was accused of the crime. The victim's brother Yance, a film-maker, spends the next couple of hours trying to establish whether this all-white jury (in a area where 85%+ of the population are white/white Hispanic) determined not to charge the accused because he, too, was white. Unfortunately, what he delivers instead is a collection of melancholic video eulogies of this young man from his family that border on the dull. Of course, they…

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