Sandhya Suri’s award-winning new thriller SANTOSH has been picked by the Academy Awards for its shortlist for Best International Feature Film of the year. It is one of only 15 films selected for the Oscar shortlist in this category out of 85 total films submitted by countries all around the world.
The film features brilliant performance by Shahana Goswami and Sunita Rajwar and is set to hit theatres on December 27th.
Ripped from her life of domesticity, Santosh, a young widow now desperate to support herself, accepts an opportunity to inherit her husband’s job as a police officer in the rural badlands of India. Quickly taken under the wing of Sharma, a charismatic and commanding older female inspector, Santosh begins an investigation into a low-caste girl’s brutal murder that plunges her into a gritty world of crime and corruption, forcing her to confront not only the brokenness of the system around her, but her own place within it.
SANTOSH also recently won two British Independent Film Awards for Best Screenplay and Breakthrough Producers following its successful run at the Cannes, London, and Toronto film festivals this year. The crime thriller boasts a perfect 100% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. It was also named by Vogue as one of the best movies of 2024.
Watch this space for more because we will have our review coming up tomorrow plus a fascinating conversation with the director Sandhya Suri!
