Stonewall

Young Danny Winters (Jeremy Irvine) flees his rural home for New York City with little more than the shirt on his back. Alone and destitute in Greenwich Village, he finds something of a new family in the other kids living on the streets — and something like a new home at the Stonewall Inn. The Stonewall is not an entirely safe home, however — it is owned by the mafia. And New York, despite its exhilarating atmosphere of liberation, is a city riddled with intolerance and violence. The vibrant community of gays, lesbians, trans folk, and drag queens in which Danny has found fun, consolation, and self-realization is targeted by thugs and harassed by the police. But a fire is building inside their hearts, one that will erupt into the streets and change history. (Toronto International Film Festival)