Moonlight

+ intro by freelance writer and film programmer Rógan Graham

A rapturous Oscar-winning drama about a young man coming to terms with the world, across three pivotal periods in his life.

  • Director

    Barry Jenkins

  • With

    Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Naomie Harris

  • USA 2016. 111min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

Winner of the Oscar for Best Picture, Moonlight is a tender film exploring the complexities of identity. Loosely adapted by Tarell Alvin McCraney from his play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, Barry Jenkin’s sensual cinematic rhapsody details the blossoming relationship between two boys, who become young men, growing up in Miami. The outstanding cast includes Janelle Monáe, whose brief scenes invest the film with a tenderness that is heartbreaking.

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