Smoke Signals is a 1998  coming-of-age comedy-drama  film directed by  Chris Eyre  from a screenplay by  Sherman Alexie , based on Alexie's short story collection. Smoke Signals is a humorous yet serious story about Victor, a young man who Director Chris Eyre describes as "trying to forgive his father." The movie gives us a glimpse into the contemporary Native American world, and is created by an almost exclusively Native American cast