Santosh. 2024. Written and directed by Sandhya Suri

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Held on Mon, Dec 23, 2024, 7:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

Tickets are available to members at the Explore category and above beginning two weeks before each screening date. Additional tickets will be released, to members as well as the general public, one week before each screening date. Please note that space is extremely limited and tickets will be in high demand. Tickets can be reserved at moma.org/contenders beginning at 10:30am ET.

Santosh. 2024. United Kingdom. Directed by Sandhya Suri. Courtesy Metrograph Pictures

Santosh. 2024. United Kingdom/France. Written and directed by Sandhya Suri. With Shahana Goswami, Sunita Rajwar. DCP courtesy Metrograph Pictures. In Hindi; English subtitles. 128 min.

“Santosh is recently widowed and therefore considered a liability in a community where casteism and misogyny are an inextricable part of life. Furthermore, her reluctant inheritance of her husband’s job as police constable is problematized by her having to deal with the death of a murdered teenager. Sandhya Suri’s deft thriller is a complex character study of a female cop whose moral conflict lays bare the oppression perpetuated in the name of caste” (London Film Festival program notes).

This film accompanies The Contenders 2024.

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