---
name: "Sandhya Suri"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sandhya-suri"
fi1m_id: "sandhya-suri"
imdb_id: "nm2119066"
tmdb_id: 931761
wikidata_id: "Q117860470"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T03:35:38.616554+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Sandhya Suri

## Identity

Sandhya Suri

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sandhya-suri
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sandhya-suri
- **IMDb ID:** nm2119066
- **TMDB ID:** 931761
- **Wikidata ID:** Q117860470
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhya_Suri, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117860470, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2119066/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/931761

Director. Born 1 January 1970 in India.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1970, India
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhya_Suri, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117860470, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2119066/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/931761

## Biography

Sandhya Suri is a British-Indian film director and screenwriter. Born and raised in Darlington, England, she studied mathematics before teaching in Japan and then training in documentary filmmaking at the National Film and Television School.

Her debut documentary *I for India* (2005) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received a Grand Jury Prize nomination. She later directed the archival documentary *Around India with a Movie Camera* (2018) and the short film *The Field* (2018). Her feature debut *Santosh* (2024), which she wrote and directed, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, was the United Kingdom's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, and won the British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, ft.com, screendaily.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Santosh* (2024), Fi1m 76, Screenplay, Dialogue, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/santosh.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Santosh* (2024), Director, Screenplay, Dialogue — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/santosh.md)
- *Around India with a Movie Camera* (2019), Director, Editor
- *The Field* (2018), Director, Writer
- *I for India* (2005), Director

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