#NYFF 2016: Talking to Barry Jenkins about Moonlight

Moonlight plays October 2 and 3 as part of the main slate of the 54th New York Film Festival. A24 will release the movie in New York on October 21st. Follow our coverage of NYFF 2016 here.
At a charged moment late in Barry Jenkins’s astonishing new movie Moonlight, childhood friend Kevin confronts Chiron, the film’s tight-lipped protagonist, and demands, “Who is you?” It’s a kind of spiritual confrontation. The two men, who shared a sexual encounter as teenagers, a