2008 Films

My Daughter the Terrorist / To See If I'm Smiling

• My Daughter the Terrorist

  
  2007. Norway. 60 mins. Directed by Beate Arnestad. Produced by Morten Daae. A Women Make Movies Release..

  Dharsika and Puhalchudar are friends who share secrets, laugh at each other’s jokes, and even braid each other’s hair. Each is also prepared to kill the other should she betray the cause of Tamil nationalism. As members of the Black Tigers, these young women have trained together for seven years to be suicide bombers. Presented from the unique viewpoint of a mother who may have lost her daughter forever, My Daughter the Terrorist offers insight into why a young woman would choose to become a guerilla fighter. NT

• To See If I'm Smiling

  
  2007. Israel. 59 mins. Directed by Tamar Yarom. Produced by Tamar Yarom. A Women Make Movies Release..
  US Premiere

  There’s a moment in this extraordinary film by Tamar Yaron when you will realize the horrifying meaning of its title. That moment brings into focus, like no film I have ever seen, the complex, oftentimes incomprehensible process that makes everyday, regular human beings complicit in war crimes. In less than an hour, without displaying a single violent graphic image, To See If I’m Smiling presents the confessions of six young Israeli women who served in the West Bank. As they tell their stories amid archival footage of their tours of duty, we are brought face to face with the painful truth of war: it corrupts and destroys everyone it touches. If you want to understand the mind-set that created Abu Ghraib, if you want to understand the price America is about to pay for its wars when the warriors come home, you’ll want to see this seminal film on the nature of evil. RD

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