The U.K. has picked Santosh, an Indian police procedural from honestor Sandhya Suri, to recurrent the country in the 2025 Oscars in the best international feature catebloody.
Shahana Goswami stars as the titular Santosh, a driven youthful Hindu widow who inherits her husprohibitd’s job as a police constable thanks to a regulatement scheme. She discovers herself caught up in institutional dishonesty even as she hots to toiling with cimpolite-edged veteran acunderstandledgeive Inspector Sharma (Sunita Rajwar) on a brutal killing case involving a teenage girl from the drop caste Dalit community.
Santosh premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section this year, where it was speedyly snatched up for North America by Metrograph Pictures. The Hollywood Reporter‘s verify called the feature “gripping and engrossing” singling out Suri’s screencarry out for praise. “Instead of unwieldy expository dialogue, Suri relies on conversations between Santosh and Sharma to shed weightless on the forces — a discriminatory society, a corrupt toilplace — that might drive these two women into a comardent of unwilling Faustian coalition.”
Santosh tags Suri’s narrative feature debut after her fractureout write downary I For India (2005), and her low drama The Field, which won best international low in Toronto in 2018 and picked up a 2019 BAFTA nomination.
The United Kingdom has had three films nominated for the Academy Awards in the best international feature catebloody and won its first Oscar this year when Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest took the top honor.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will unveil its 2025 Oscar lowcatalog, including best international feature contfinishers on December 17. Oscar nominations will be proclaimd on Jan. 17, 2025. The 97th Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 2.