Sandhya Suri

• Birthplace — England • Occupation — Filmmaker • Years Active — 2005–present • Notable Works — Santosh

Sandhya Suri was born in England and raised in Darlington. Her father, Yash Pal Suri, had emigrated from India to work as a doctor at a hospital in Teesside. After earning a degree in mathematics, Suri worked as a teacher in Japan. Her experiences documenting this period on camera inspired her to study documentary filmmaking at the National Film and Television School in Buckinghamshire.

In 2005, Suri released the documentary I for India, detailing her father's experiences as a 20th-century Indian immigrant in the United Kingdom, based on his own tape recordings. I for India was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Suri's second film, the silent 2018 documentary Around India with a Movie Camera, used archival British Film Institute footage to explore life in British India. That same year, Suri released the narrative short film The Field, which was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film in 2019. Suri's narrative feature debut, Santosh was selected to screen in the Un Certain Regard portion of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. She first began work on Santosh in 2016 when she was accepted to the Sundance Institute Director's Lab.

• Year — Title — Notes — Ref. • 2005 — I for India — Documentary • 2018 — Around India with a Movie Camera — Documentary • The Field — Short film • 2024 — Santosh