WHAT: Documentary Premiere Screening of BE SMILE (Quebec / 80min / 2006)

WHEN: Monday, January 22 at 7:30pm

WHERE: Room H-110, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve, Montreal, Quebec

COST: Free or by donation

INFO and TRAILER: www.cinemapolitica.org 
Director Robert Lewis will be in attendance as well as the two characters featured.

It takes a certain kind of creative genius to look at an old situation with new eyes.  Be Smile    tells the remarkable story of two Inuit men who live on and off the streets of Montreal, who at times sleep on the filmmaker's floor, who paint murals on apartment walls, who wrestle with addiction and the residue of trauma in a (post)colonial and largely uncaring Canadian society.  

Despite all this, they remain enough a part of a larger Inuit community in Montreal to attend regular feasts of traditional food.  Even more remarkable, the Inuit men who are the subjects of the film were invited to participate in the editing of the film, making this a document not only about but by individuals who are often overlooked as we walk by their outstretched hands.