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To See If I'm Smiling

Tamar Yarom 2007

Categories: International Spectrum

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Run time: 59 min. | Israel | Language: English, Israeli

The frank testimonials of six female Israeli soldiers pack a powerful emotional punch. The young women revisit their tours of duty in the occupied territories with surprising honesty and strip bare stereotypes of gender differences in the military. No information seems to be off-limits. The former soldiers share shocking moments of negligence, flippancy, immaturity and power-tripping. The psychological transformation that these young women underwent as a result of military service is both upsetting and riveting. The culture of war transforms people: personalities change, moral codes are subverted, values are supplanted and masks are constructed to dull the pain of what they did and didn't do in uniform. To See if I'm Smiling illustrates how the trauma of war alters personalities and behaviour, and raises questions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Does military service create more anger, resentment and disagreement, or does it inspire understanding and empathy? Does it propagate or deter hostilities?
-Angie Driscoll

Co-presented with Female Eye Film Festival.

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time		venue	calendar	tickets
9:15 PM Wed, Apr 23	plays with... Bad Blue Boys \| Branko Schmidt 2007	Al Green	+ add to cal
1:00 PM Sun, Apr 27	plays with... Bad Blue Boys \| Branko Schmidt 2007	Bloor	+ add to cal	buy tickets