Paper Flowers

it’s a very well made movie. it’s well written, well acted, well directed and looks beautiful. the fact it’s based on a real persons life i think is actually to its detriment. it turns shalin into such a saint that he almost feels too perfect of a character. i genuinely…

sherry

2025 SLOIFF Ranked Paper Flowers is a well-meaning drama, based on the life of Shalin Shah, a young man whose battle with cancer made national news after he wrote an inspirational article posted near the end of his life called “Thank You, Cancer.” The film was also…

Scott Lentz

Just awesome.

Mahadev

I kept wondering if the mispronunciation of his name was a deliberate choice. Shalin always used the correct pronunciation, so it felt strange that the love of his life called him Shaylin. I could understand it if he were someone who anglicized his own name, the version his…

Aashka

Great seeing this with a sold out crowd, hadn’t heard of Shalin’s story before and found it to be very impactful.

Spencer Jones

a romantic, appreciative story of gratitude. hallmark-ian in its strengths, and strong enough in its message to be picked up by a streamer. tear-jerker with a flat script, so it doesn't stick with you how it could. unfortunately, the cancer movie has its formulaic routes.…

Mo Lee Smith

Shalin Shah died at the age of just 22 in 2015 after sharing a post online titled “Thank You Cancer” on the Huffington Post website, and asking for photos of sunsets to be shared. Mahesh Pailoor’s Paper Flowers dramatises this touching story of a USU graduate's message…

loureviews

It handled the sadness of terminal illness with grace and managed to make the audience laugh several times. A heart warming piece.

Aidan

It feels wrong to tear into something this earnest and therefore harmless, but this is rarely better than a Lifetime Movie. Except this has much higher ambitions, I imagine. There's only two general conflicts here: the cancer, and the father's racism, and I must emphasize…

ThePhantomGull