Night Catches Us

In 1976, a former Black Panther returns to his Philadelphia neighbourhood for his father's funeral and finds old suspicions waiting: many believe he betrayed a comrade years before. Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington lead, with a score by The Roots.

Tanya Hamilton's first feature is quiet and deeply felt, more interested in what the movement cost its members than in its slogans. It's one of the few films to imagine the years after the Panthers, when people had to live with what happened and raise children in its wake.