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In the past five years, three movies of great distinction have challenged, in subtle and profound ways, our notions of who gets to speak for whom, especially when it comes to race, gender, and sexuality. In 2016, Barry Jenkins, a straight Black filmmaker, directed “Moonlight,” a landmark movie about Black gay life. Three years later, Trey Edward Shults, a white director, wrote and directed “Waves,” an extraordinary study of the dissolution of one middle-class Black family. And last month, at the Sundance Film Festival, the actress Rebecca Hall premièred “Passing,” her directing début (she also wrote the screenplay), which is based on Nella Larsen’s uncanny, tightly structured 1929 novel about Black female friendship, mirroring, deception, and class privilege. (“Passing” will stream on Netflix in the fall.)