Moonlight

Director: Barry Jenkins, Barry Jenkins

2016 / 111min / DCP

The three sections of Jenkins’s Miami-set triptych show scenes from the childhood, adolescent awakening, and young adulthood of Chiron (played respectively by Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, and Trevante Rhodes), a child of Black Liberty City, through the discovery, denial, and eventual acceptance of his sexual identity, as well as the other travails of his inner-city upbringing. “Achingly romantic and uncommonly wise… a film that urges the viewer to look past Chiron’s outward appearance and his superficial signifiers of identity, climbing inside familiar stereotypes in order to quietly dismantle them from within.”—Los Angeles Times