Moonlight
This two-time Oscar-winning film by director Barry Jenkins was highly praised by the American press ten years ago. The New York Times described the film as “a poem written in light”. Jenkins, who based the story on Tarell Alvin McCraney's play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, sketches the world in which a young black American grows up. It is a harsh world full of drugs and poverty, but Jenkins wants to do more than just record social injustices. Moonlight tells a universal and disarming story about how a person learns to deal with themselves and others.
That person is Chiron, whom we follow through three episodes of his life. While struggling with his sexual identity, he grows up in a rough neighbourhood of Miami. His mother Paula, herself a junkie, is unable to care for him properly. Only drug dealer Juan and his girlfriend Teresa seem to care about him. And his school friend Kevin.
