USA 2016, 111’, OmU, R: Barry Jenkins, Montage: Nat Sanders & Joi McMillon
In three time periods, „Moonlight“ tells the story of Chiron, an African American from the Miami area of Florida. In the first part he is nine years old, has a drug-addicted mother and an absent father. He is taunted and bullied by schoolmates, but finds a kind of surrogate family in the drug dealer Juan and his girlfriend Teresa. In the second part Chiron is 16 years old, but still slight and an outsider. Only with the schoolmate Kevin does a friendly relationship develop. In the third part the now grown-up Chiron has trained himself a physical armour, behind which he hides his sensitive nature.
„Moonlight“ won the 2017 Oscar for Best Picture.