A Simple F*cking Gesture

Rated 6.9/10 on IMDb. Winner of Best Comedy Short at the Breckenridge Film Festival. Official selections include the Florida Film Festival, HollyShorts, DC Shorts International Film Festival, Brussels Short Film Festival, Calgary International Film Festival, and the Mecal International Short Film Festival of Barcelona. Nominated for the 2020 Directors Guild of Canada Award and the 2021 Award This! Best Short Film. You're stuck in traffic. The driver ahead cuts in. You let him. He doesn't give you the wave. The simple, universal, unspoken acknowledgment that says 'thank you' — he just doesn't do it. For one husband and wife, this tiny omission becomes everything: a symbol of everything wrong with the world, proof of a society in moral freefall, evidence of a man who deserves whatever is coming to him. Then he pulls over. Written and directed by Jesse Shamata (Break A Leg, NewDirectors/NewFilms at MoMA), A Simple Fucking Gesture is a sharply observed, darkly comic short film about road rage, social etiquette, and the terrifying gap between what we say about other people and who we become when they're standing right in front of us. Free with ads.