Oscars: UK Selects Sandhya Suri’s ‘Santosh’ As Best International Feature Submission
deadline.comThe UK has submitted Sandhya Suri’s fiction feature debut Santosh as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards.
The film was selected by BAFTA, the organization appointed by the American Academy to choose the UK’s submission. To be eligible, a British film must be predominantly non-English language and released theatrically outside of the US between 1 November 2023 and 30 September 2024.
Written and directed by Suri, Santosh debuted in Un Certain Regard at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The film’s synopsis reads: In rural Northern India, newly widowed Santosh inherits her late husband’s job as a police constable and becomes embroiled in the investigation of a young girl’s murder.
Written and directed by Sandhya Suri, the film stars Shahana Goswami, Sunita Rajwar, with cinematography by Lennert Hillege, and editing by Maxime Pozzi-Garcia.
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