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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

• Director: Barry Jenkins
• USA / 2018 / DCP / Colour / 117’ / English; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Barry Jenkins
• Original Work: James Baldwin
• Director of Photography: James Laxton
• Editing: Joi McMillon, Nat Sanders
• Music: Nicholas Britell
• Cast: KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Colman Domingo, Teyonah Parris, Michael Beach, Dave Franco, Diego Luna, Regina King
• Producer: Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, Barry Jenkins, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Megan Ellison
• Production Co.: Annapurna Pictures, Plan B Entertainment, Pastel
• World Sales: Annapurna International
• Turkish Rights: Warner Bros., Turkey
• Print Source: Sony Pictures Classics

- 2019 OSCAR -- Best Supporting Actress (R. King)
- 2018 MAR DEL PLATA -- Audience Award
- 2018 GOLDEN GLOBE -- Best Supporting Actress (R. King)
- 2018 TORONTO -- People’s Choice Award

Barry Jenkins’ first film since Moonlight is his adaptation of James Baldwin’s eponymous novel. Carrying Baldwin’s words in its backbone “Every black person born in America was born on Beale Street (...) Beale Street is our legacy,” this romantic drama follows Tish and Fonny: Friends since childhood, the devoted couple dream of a future together but their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Set in early-1970s Harlem, If Beale Street Could Talk is a timeless and moving love story of both a couple’s unbreakable bond and an African-American family.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.