Departing Gesture

Directed by Brian Bolster, Jonathan Napolitano · 2019

A funeral director in the American South confronts stigma and ignorance to give people lost to HIV a dignified farewell.

A compassionate portrait of one man insisting on dignity where the HIV epidemic still meets silence and shame.

As the frontlines of America’s HIV epidemic continue to migrate away from metropolitan centers - and invariably into territories least-equipped for battle – a funeral director in the heart of the South confronts an envir

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