Sandhya Suri

Sandhya Suri is a British-Indian film director and documentarian.

Early life
Sandhya Suri was born in England and raised in Darlington. Her father, Yash Pal Suri, had emigrated from India to work at a hospital in Teesside.

Career
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 2005, Suri's released the documentary I for India detailing her father's experiences as an 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.