THE GESTURE AND THE WORD ｜ Omeleto

Directed and written by Noel Paganotti, this short drama is a narrative of conviction, one held quietly at first, until it digs in its heels and becomes clamorous and rattling. The film has a visual elegance and stateliness that suits its story's historical provenance, but in its painstaking build-up of one face-to-face encounter, it peels back the layers of civility and politesse to reveal the ugliness of discrimination, the hollowness of the American dream and the struggle of one man to let go of a hard-won symbol. https://www.lykstage.com/c/Omeleto