Screenplay: Barry Jenkins

Direction Barry Jenkins

Cast Trevante Rhodes · Naomie Harris · Mahershala Ali · Ashton Sanders

Plot Moonlight tells the story of Chiron, a young man who comes of age during the War on Drugs era in Miami. Set in three different time periods as Chiron battles...

Direction Barry Jenkins

Cast Thuso Mbedu · Joel Edgerton · Chase W. Dillon · Aaron Pierre

Plot The story is told in the third person, focusing mainly on Cora. Scattered single chapters also focus on Cora's mother Mabel, the slavecatcher Ridgeway, a reluctant slave sympathizer named Ethel,...

Direction Barry Jenkins

Cast KiKi Layne · Stephan James · Regina King · Diego Luna

Plot Based on the novel by James Baldwin, “If Beale Street Could Talk” follows Tish, a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her lover’s innocence while...

Direction Barry Jenkins

Cast Wyatt Cenac · Tracey Heggins · Elizabeth Acker · Melissa Bisagni

Plot A love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-somethings dealing with the conundrum of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco.

Direction Barry Jenkins

Cast Basel Hamdan · Saba Shariat · Marc Levi

Plot Aadid tells us his life in seven minutes. He's an Arabic-speaking young man working the night shift at a laundromat and dry cleaners somewhere in the United States. In the...

Direction Angel Manuel Soto

Cast Jahi Di'Allo Winston · Teyonah Parris · Jamaal Burcher · William Catlett

Plot Fourteen-year-old Mouse (Jahi Di’Allo Winston) desperately wants to join the Midnight Clique, an infamous group of Baltimore dirt-bike riders who rule the summertime streets. His older brother, Stro, was their...

Direction Barry Jenkins

Cast Crystal Cotton · Stephen Lin

Plot In this day-in-the-life piece, a young, interracial couple explore their relationship on a quiet Saturday in Brooklyn.

Direction Barry Jenkins

Cast Griffin Anglin · Sophia Goldfarb · David Marangwanda · Lhamo Sakpo

Plot Its single hand-held shot lends both immediacy of viewpoint and a floating unreality to a young woman's visit to a Seattle convenience store, seemingly fraught with menacing purpose.

Direction Barry Jenkins

Cast DeQynn Gibson · Luis Jimenez · Jonathan Bent · Ernest Jones

Direction Barry Jenkins

Cast Ana Laura Treviño · Sasha Vaziri · Taryn Devreux

Plot The story of a young girl and her fleeting relationship with a scoundrel. From Vimeo.com: Chlorophyl (yes, with one "L" at the end) was commissioned for Borscht 7 in 2011....

Direction Rachel Morrison

Cast Ryan Destiny · Brian Tyree Henry · Judy Greer · Olunike Adeliyi

Plot The story of Claressa 'T-Rex' Shields, a boxer from Flint, Michigan who trained to become the first woman in her country's history to win an Olympic gold medal in the...

Direction Barry Jenkins

Cast Jenn · John