There is a striking scene early on in Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight that sums up the whole film. It is dusk and the sun is about to set on a Miami Beach. A young African American boy and his mentor sit by the sea and watch the ebb and flow of the ocean in the dwindling light. Having just run away from home, the boy seems lost. The mentor consoles him with an anecdote and a thoughtful piece of advice: ‘At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you’re going to be – can’t let nobody make that decision for you.’