To See If I’m Smiling
NEW DOCS
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
Director
Tamar Yarom
Producer
Tamar Yarom
Release Year
2007
Festival Year
2008
Country
Israel
Run Time
59 minutes
Premiere
US Premiere