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Santosh

Horizons 2024 / Santosh / United Kingdom, India, France, Germany 2024

Santosh Santosh

Synopsis

Three films in the festival’s Horizons section reflect the unprecedented hit year enjoyed by Indian cinema. Two were shown at Sundance and in Berlin, while Sandhya Suri’s feminist thriller Santosh was shown in competition as part of the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard. Thanks to procedural rules, Constable Santosh inherited her position in the police force from her late husband. Though inexperienced, she immediately takes on the case of the rape and murder of a girl from the “untouchable” Dalit caste. But in the world’s most populous country, not everyone follows the same rules. Only a chosen few can navigate the maze of corruption, questionable ethics, and caste discrimination in which violence and misogyny are always present.

Martin Horyna

About the film

125 min / Color, DCP

Director Sandhya Suri / Screenplay Sandhya Suri / Dir. of Photography Lennert Hillege / Music Luisa Gerstein / Sound Etienne Haug Ni, Kola Medić, Bruno Tarriére / Editor Maxime Pozzi-Garcia / Art Director Devika Dave / Producer James Bowsher, Balthazar de Ganay, Mike Goodridge, Alan McAlex / Production Good Chaos / Coproduction Haut at Court, Lionfish Films, Razor Films, BBC Films, BFI / Cast Shahana Goswami, Sanjay Bishnoi, Kushal Dubey, Sunita Rajwar, Shashi Beniwal / Sales mk2 Films

About the director

Sandhya Suri

Sandhya Suri (1975). Filmography: The Field (Le Champ de maïs, 2018, short), Around India with a Movie Camera (2018, doc.), Santosh (2024).

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E-mail: [email protected]

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