SANTOSH

A young widow now desperate to support herself, Santosh (Shahanna Goswam) accepts an opportunity to inherit her late husband’s job as a police officer in the rural badlands of India. Quickly taken under the wing of a charismatic and commanding older female inspector, she begins an investigation into a brutal murder that plunges her into a gritty underworld of crime and corruption. Driven by an astonishing lead performance, this immersive and layered Cannes drama confronts the temptation to become complicit in a broken law enforcement system. A Metrograph Pictures release.