Dec 15, 2025
Short Stream | Smile Please by Bakul Matiyani
Smile Please, Bakul Matiyani’s 2023 National Award–winning short film, explores childhood friendship, disability and the quiet grief families often avoid confronting, through the story of a boy living with Moebius Syndrome, a rare medical disorder that impairs facial movement, whose only smile is the one he draws with his fingers on a mirror. PREMIUM Set in a small-town household on the cusp of a…