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Smile Pinki

  • December 31, 2008
  • 39 min.
  • Documentary
  • United States
Pinki is a five-year-old girl from a village in the Mirzapur District, India, born into a desperately poor family, and with a cleft lip. Pinki never realized that this condition required just one simple operation until she met Pankaj, a social worker traveling from village to village gathering patients to go to hospital in Varanasi that provides free surgery to thousands each year. This real-world fairy tale follows its protagonist journey to a dream smile from isolation and shame.

Original title: Smile Pinki

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nomination

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winning rate

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win

Academy Awards #81 - 2009

Award People Status
Best Documentary Short Film Megan Mylan Winner

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