Moonlight director Barry Jenkins discussed his Oscar-winning coming-of-age drama at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday by dissecting a swimming lesson scene early on in the film.

There’s a moment in “Moonlight,” a gay black man’s coming-of-age story, when the protagonist, Chiron, is sitting in the principal’s office after being beat up by some of his classmates.

We’re both inside Chiron’s head and far away from him, knowing him only as far as he lets himself be known. Every scene, every frame is important. I could point to any one shot and call it equally the ...

So many of this film’s most important scenes take place under the moon, particularly the climax. While so many movies of the so-called “hood genre” end with someone getting shot, “Moonlight” ends with ...

Raoul Peck, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary, “I Am Not Your Negro,” says whenever he thinks about all of the films made this year, he always comes back to a final scene from ...

Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” is another American indie coming-of-age film, but with a big difference. This one is about a poor black boy named Chiron (pronounced “Shy-rone”), who lives in ...

Much like 2014's Boyhood, Moonlight, the new drama from writer-director Barry Jenkins, ... Divided into three parts, the film begins with a segment about Chiron (Alex Hibbert), ...

Mahershala Ali and Alex R. Hibbert in a scene from the film, "Moonlight." ... Chiron, ages from a school boy (Alex R. Hibbert) to a high school student and then a young adult around 30.

But “Moonlight” answers Chiron’s question with a resounding ‘Yes!’ Jenkins’ subject is black, gay, impoverished and lives with a drug-dependent single mother. But more importantly, his name is Chiron, ...

New movie “Moonlight” is loosely based on the play “In Moonlight Black Boys Turn Blue” by Tarrell McCraney. ... One scene, in which Chiron asks them what the word “faggot” means, ...

A huge hit at the Toronto International Film Festival, MOONLIGHT follows the boy, Chiron, from age nine to adulthood. The film evokes BOYHOOD, although this one was not filmed with one actor in the ...