Noirish Project (2014)

A neorealist feature film masquerading as film noir. Noirish Project is a melancholy and gently absurd feature film about Billy, who steals his family's precious pearls and hands them over to low life Jimmy, who in turn takes them to a fence. But when the pearls turn out to be fake, Jimmy barely escapes from the fence with his life, let alone the pearls. Billy and Jimmy endeavor to get the pearls back before Billy's family finds out they're gone. But when the fence goes missing, they realize their story has only just begun. Shot in black and white, Noirish Project has an elliptical rhythm, and truthful poetic acting, rooting it firmly in the art house,