Oscars 2025: UK chooses 'Satisfaction' for international feature award
A1 Digital India News: Sandhya Suri's narrative feature debut is an ensemble police procedural centered around the gruesome murder of a teenager in India. The UK. Indian police procedural director Sandhya Suri's film Santosh has been selected to represent the country at the 2025 Oscars in the Best International Feature Film category.
Shahana Goswami plays Santosh, a young Hindu widow who inherits her husband's job as a police officer due to a government scheme. She finds herself caught up in institutional corruption, while she finds relief working with seasoned ruthless Detective Inspector Sharma (Sunita Rajwar) on a brutal murder case involving a teenage girl from a lower-caste Dalit community.
Santosh debuted in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes this year, where it was immediately picked up for North America by Metrograph Pictures. The Hollywood Reporter's review called the feature "gripping and absorbing," praising Suri's script. “Instead of unassuming expository dialogue, Suri relies on the interactions between Santosh and Sharma to highlight the forces – a discriminatory society, a corrupt workplace – that may drive these two women into a kind of reluctant Faustian alliance.”
Santosh directs Suri’s narrative feature debut following her breakout documentary I for India (2005) and her short drama The Field, which won the best international short film award at Toronto in 2018 and received a 2019 Bafta nomination.
The UK has three films nominated for Academy Awards in the best international feature category and this year won its first Oscar, with Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest taking the top honour.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce its 2025 Oscars shortlist on Dec. 17. Oscar nominations will be announced on Jan. 17. 17, 2025. The 97th Academy Awards will be held Sunday, March
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